First results on Ca. voting machines decision.

[napi21]

Listening to a poor cell phone coverage of Bowen's announcement for recertification plans for CA voting systems. Transcribing as I can. Joined late (will clean up the following as we can clarify)....

missed beginning of conference, joing late...

100% manual count for diebold and sequoia DREs.
One machine per polling place.

ES&S InkaVote Plus (as used in Los Angeles County)
ES&S ignored my March demand to submit source code. ES&S eventually submitted source code to late for t2b review. Therefore, decertifying InkaVote Plus without recertification.

BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 8/4/2007 12:13AM PT
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[AtomicKitten]

1. love the sound of manual count

w00t

[rumpel]

2. ooooooh -YES

:woohoo:

[napi21]

3. Here's an update!

Now on the SoS website...

Decertification/Recertification Decisions Issued August 3, 2007, by Secretary of State Debra Bowen

Diebold Election Systems, Inc.

* Withdrawal of Approval/Conditional Reapproval (.pdf, 6,734KB) http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting_systems/ttbr/diebold.pdf

Hart InterCivic Withdrawl/Conditional of Approval/Conditional Reapproval for Hart System 6.2.1 (.pdf, 5,886KB) http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting_systems/ttbr/hart.pdf

* Voluntary Withdrawal of Certification of Hart System 6.1 (.pdf, 303KB) http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting_systems/hart_6.1.pdf

Sequoia Voting Systems

* Withdrawal of Approval/Conditional Reapproval (.pdf, 4,631KB) http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting_systems/ttbr/sequoia.pdf

Elections Systems and Software, Inc.

* Rescission and Withdrawal of Approval (.pdf, 303KB) http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting_systems/ess_rescission_withdrawal.pdf

Listening to a poor cell phone coverage of Bowen's announcement for recertification plans for CA voting systems. Transcribing as I can. Joined late (will clean up the following as we can clarify)....

missed beginning of conference, joining late...

DREs decertified and recertified for use by disabled only, one per precinct.
100% manual count for Diebold and Sequoia DREs.
One machine per polling place.

ES&S InkaVote Plus (as used in Los Angeles County)
ES&S ignored my March demand to submit source code. ES&S eventually submitted source code to late for t2b review. Therefore, "I am decertifying the InkaVote Plus without recertification."

Voters are victims of federal certification process that has not done a job of assuring machines are accurate, accessible, secure.

I reject suggestion that I should not make changes to voting systems simply because of cost...When NASA finds a problem, they don't continue just because they've already spent the money. They scrub the mission and spend the money to get it right. We must do same with elections.

Paper ballots are simply easier to understand by voters.

Had federal testing been done on source code, it could have made a great difference.

(sorry, this is very difficult to hear, doing my best.)

DEVELOPING...

[rumpel]

5. :)

[rumpel]

4. Decisions Issued

Decertification/Recertification Decisions Issued August 3, 2007, by Secretary of State Debra Bowen

Diebold Election Systems, Inc.

* Withdrawal of Approval/Conditional Reapproval (.pdf, 6,734KB)

Hart InterCivic

* Withdrawal of Approval/Conditional Reapproval for Hart System 6.2.1 (.pdf, 5,886KB)
* Voluntary Withdrawal of Certification of Hart System 6.1 (.pdf, 303KB)

Sequoia Voting Systems

* Withdrawal of Approval/Conditional Reapproval (.pdf, 4,631KB)

Elections Systems and Software, Inc.

* Rescission and Withdrawal of Approval (.pdf, 303KB)

http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_vsr.htm

[Richard Steele]

8. Sounds like a great day for honest elections in California! recommended.

[me b zola]

6. This thread needs some recommendations!

:kick:

[DemReadingDU]

7. morning kick

[Nimrod2005]

10. k

[kpete]

9. Let The Sunshine In!!!

Yeah!!!

[nolabels]

11. This is the best news in awhile

I am ambivalent to any celebrations though, this seems to be only a win for the first round of a very long nasty fight with a lot of corrupt republicans in all levels of the government :mad:

[Summer93]

12. Kick and Recommend

This is very good news!

[Wilms]

13. K & R n/t