On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 11:11, Andrew Plato wrote:
> Its been in the works for a while. Diebold, Accenture, and a local firm
> Saber Consulting bid on the contract. The Secretary of State chose the
> local firm, Saber, to do the job. Its part of the federal Help America
> Vote Act (HAVA).
And the easiest way to help people vote is to do the voting for them.
Electronic voting without a non-modifiable audit trail is asking for
vote-rigging and fraud. Just ask Sonny Perdue...
> Part of the reason Saber won was because Diebold and Accenture's
> solutions have serious security problems. When I met with the Secretary
> of State's selection team, I pointed the security weaknesses in those
> products. It wasn't the only reason they picked Saber, but it was
> certainly a factor.
>
> Oregon won't do away with the mail-in ballots as far as I know. But the
> remainder of the system is being updated to do electronic data gathering
> and registration.
With what sort of audit trail and verification?
--
"Push that big, big granite sphere way up there from way down here!
Gasp and sweat and pant and wheeze! Uh-oh! Feel momentum cease!
Watch it tumble down and then roll the boulder up again!"
- The story of Sisyphus by Dr. Zeus in Frazz 12/18/2003
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