Reply #6: Actually, Peach Patriot... [View All]

[Bill Bored]

...Bowen, as a condition of recertification of all those decertified voting systems (including optical scan), required much more rigorous auditing of vote counts, similar to that recommended in the paper in the OP.

Now, either Bowen overstepped her bounds, or the RoV's have more power than she does, or the citizens of California are far too complacent in not demanding that she, and the RoVs implement her directives. All three are possible in fact.

The problem is: Auditing is boring. And solutions are not as sexy or as interesting as problems. Once the DREs were almost totally banned in CA, I imagine a lot of folks lost interest in the electronic vote-counting issue. After all, there's a paper ballot -- what can go wrong?

Bowen and her team clearly tried to do the right thing.

The question is: Why are they not following through with the auditing requirements set forth by the Post-Election Audit Standards Working Group and the Withdrawals of Approval and Conditional Re-approvals of California's voting systems?

If RoVs are suing the SoS, why aren't citizens suing them both at this point to see that these directives are implemented? Just a thought.