Reply #29: Force a repair? [View All]

[Bill Bored]

Did Bev Harris "force" a repair of the MS Access back end hack of the GEMS election totals when she demonstrated that on national TV with Howard Dean? I don't think so.

I guess you're asking if there could be a law that could mandate software evaluation by impartial experts with a mandate to reduce or eliminate the possibility of election fraud right? I don't know. There are issues with lack of HAVA funding of this sort of thing, aren't there? Check it out.

I recently heard that the much maligned EAC is part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Imagine that. These are the Einsteins that are supposed to be looking after this stuff, writing the standards, checking the code, or at least the design of the system, like we are. Yet they can't even get their hands on the code and they apparently have no money to do their jobs. See what you can dig up about that. It sounds like another Republican-style unfunded mandate. Let me know if I'm wrong Wilmsie!

Have there been any laws or prosecutions to force Microsoft to come out with a clean operating system before testing it in the marketplace? Don't think so. Just all that anti-monopoly crap, valid though it may be.

The same sort of lax attitude is being applied to votin' systems, from what I see. It's just another form of deregulation.