BBV - E-Vote Firm's Bill Comes Due

[morgan2]

SACRAMENTO -- Citing concerns that Diebold Election Systems installed uncertified software on some electronic voting systems in a California county without the state's knowledge, officials are forcing the company to pay for an audit of all the company's voting machines used in the state in order to win certification for a new model.

http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61172,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1

[althecat]

1. Now that is the sort of conduct every SoS should be following....

[lysergik]

2. If they choose an independant testing agency that has connections to them

We could all be in trouble.

CA has the ball in their court and they need to be shown the light so they can be OUR poster child for why these big companies machines are dangerous and fraudulent. We don't want them becoming Diebold's poster child "CA certified our stuff after we jumped through all these hoops, our stuff is the best.. "

The information is out there that shows more than reasonable doubt that Diebold and others have flaky products.

We need to open SoS's eyes to projects such as the Open Voting Consortium ( http://www.openvoting.org ) because they have our interests in mind and have a very realistic solution.

[RedEagle]

3. This has potential

Agreed, depends on who does the independent review and how thorough it really is- and if Diebold gets access to the machines ahead of time.

But, the industry just got its hands slapped. How long will it take to do the review? Maybe long enough?

What are ES&S and Sequoia doing in the background? Sequoia has quite an incestuous relationship with California elections officials.