Reply #17: 35 Secretaries of State Sidestep vote fraud issue [View All]

[BevHarris]

Election officials sidestep study about voting fraud
http://www.pressherald.com/news/state/030729election.shtml

"Computer security experts warned in a study released before the weekend meeting of more than 35 secretaries of state that there are "significant security flaws" with the system designed by Diebold Election Systems. The company defended its system and said the survey by researchers at Johns Hopkins University was flawed. (please see Debunking of Diebold Denials, http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00224.htm#3)

"...it was tabled until the winter meeting in February. Minnesota Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer, the group's new president, said the overall election system has safeguards against fraud but she said she's confident election administrators will learn from any mistakes.

The voting software is just one piece of the overall system, and the software itself continues to improve, she said."

Please see Debunks of this specific point

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Can anyone get me a contact list, including e-mails, for the 50 secretaries of state? Better yet, can you enter the info you find directly into the "BBV Contacts" section at http://www.blackboxvoting.org ?

Please come back to this thread and post which secretaries of state you added contacts for. The League of Women Voters is reportedly "rethinking their position" (though they'll probably use Diebolds idiotic rebuttals to stand firm). But we have been having an impact.

Now it's time to have an impact on the secretaries of state, which, through NASS (National Association of Secretaries of State) takes large payoffs from the voting machine vendors. If I had to target a single position that needed to become corrupt in order to get unsafe and unauditable voting machines into each state, that's where I'd start.

Bev