My turn to rant: Over five months ago Florida State University put out their report on what they found when inspecting the Sarasota Co. voting system that had not recorded over 18,000 votes for congress. FSU researchers found a serious security vulnerability in the voting system. I took it upon myself to try to get people in positions of responsibility to do their jobs and to warn counties that their voting machines may be vulnerable and that there were mitigations that could be used. Numerous emails to the Election Assistance Commission resulted in nothing happening because, according to them, they did not qualify it for use so they couldn’t do anything about any problems. NASED qualified the system and after five months of also talking with them a response was received yesterday: “I can assure you that we are aware of the importance of your issue. NASED will be discussing this issue at our next meeting.” “Next meeting”?  Five months of no action while counties, cities, towns, hold their elections on these machines without any idea that they are vulnerable to attack. Next meeting? What was wrong with sending an email to those who use those systems and include a copy of the report and ask them to read the damn report? And these people expect us to have confidence in the election system. Not hardly.

 

NAtional: Uncle Sam Wants You: To Build a Better Voting Machine

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/07/uncle-sam-wants.html

 

CA: Alameda County - Judge Calls For New Vote After Data Loss

http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=25421

 

FL: Sarasota County - Sarasota to buy new voting machines that give paper back

http://www.sun-herald.com/breakingnews.cfm?id=2737

 

GA: Bibb County - Official hopes primary runs well

http://www.macon.com/100/story/90046.html

 

HI: State elects to lease new voting machines

http://starbulletin.com/2007/07/16/news/story02.html

 

IA: Dallas County - Dallas 'Destiny' vote totals weren't wrong, just late

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070716/NEWS/707160312/-1/ENT05

 

WA: King County - Snags could delay King County's switch to all-mail ballots

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/323773_elex16.html

 

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