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State Senate Hearing March 29 on Voting Machine Certification Process
Just received from the Senate Elections Committee:
VOTING MACHINE VENDORS
CONTINUE BOYCOTT OF STATE SENATE
TWO OF THREE TESTING LABS AGREE TO APPEAR AT THE
HEARING LOOKING AT VOTING MACHINE CERTIFICATION PROCESS
WHO: Senator Debra Bowen (D-Redondo Beach), Chairwoman of the Senate Elections, Reapportionment & Constitutional Amendments Committee
WHAT: The Senate Elections, Reapportionment & Constitutional Amendments Committee will talk publicly with two of the three independent testing authorities about how voting equipment is tested and certified for use in California.
WHEN: Tomorrow, Wednesday, March 29, 2006, at 10:00 a.m.
WHERE: State Capitol, Room 112.
WHY: The voting machines that Californians rely on to accurately record their votes are required to be certified by the one of the private Independent Testing Authorities (ITAs) and by the Secretary of State. However, the testing process has been criticized by some as being both incomplete and biased in favor of the voting machine vendors.
“The problems with electronic voting machines have been well-documented and every election brings a new problem to light,” said Bowen. “Last week in Chicago, malfunctions with Sequoia’s optical scan and touch screen machines prevented many people from casting ballots, and officials are still tallying votes thanks to problems with merging the vote totals from the different types of machines. In Texas, ballots from a March 7 election had to be hand tallied after the ES&S machines being used counted some ballots twice, and a programming error in some Hart InterCivic machines inflated the final vote tally by 100,000 votes.”
Officials from Wyle Laboratories and SysTest Labs, two of the three ITAs in the country, will appear before the committee at the hearing. The third ITA, CIBER – which recently certified the Diebold TSx machine for use in California even though it relies on programming code banned by the Election Assistance Commission and California law – has declined for the second time to appear before the committee. The four largest voting machine vendors – Hart InterCivic, Sequoia, ES&S, and Diebold – have also declined for the third consecutive hearing to appear before the committee.
The witnesses scheduled to testify before the committee are:
o James Neu, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Wyle Laboratories
o Joe Hazeltine, Senior Director, Commercial and Aerospace Test, Wyle Laboratories
o Brian Phillips, President, SysTest Labs
Members of the public will be allowed to testify before the committee once the scheduled testimony has been completed.
Comments
The certification of the Diebold Tsx voting machine violates the law because the machine's code is not secure and easily can be tampered with. The public rightfully has little confidence in the Diebold electronic voting machines because they have not been proven to be secure and tamper-proof. Republican Secretary of State McPherson should de-certify those Diebold machines, as requested by the Democratic Senate Elections Committee Chair Debra Bowen.
Posted by: Joel Freid at March 29, 2006 09:22 PM
In my recent election I believe my votes were switched to my opponet. Reason(Miss Code Ann 23-15-333)
Order Candidates names-The ballots must contain the names of the dully qualified candidates in alphabetical order by last name. When the voters voted my name was on top. When the results were reported my opponents name was on top. I believe the names were reversed. Can this happen and how? Not all names were changed.
Thank you
Myrna Bourgeois
Posted by: Myrna Bourgeois at October 21, 2007 12:28 PM
In my recent election I believe my votes were switched to my opponet. Reason(Miss Code Ann 23-15-333)
Order Candidates names-The ballots must contain the names of the dully qualified candidates in alphabetical order by last name. When the voters voted my name was on top. When the results were reported my opponents name was on top. I believe the names were reversed. Can this happen and how? Not all names were changed.
Thank you
Myrna Bourgeois
Posted by: Myrna Bourgeois at October 21, 2007 12:29 PM
In my recent election I believe my votes were switched to my opponet. Reason(Miss Code Ann 23-15-333)
Order Candidates names-The ballots must contain the names of the dully qualified candidates in alphabetical order by last name. When the voters voted my name was on top. When the results were reported my opponents name was on top. I believe the names were reversed. Can this happen and how? Not all names were changed.
Thank you
Myrna Bourgeois
Posted by: Myrna Bourgeois at October 21, 2007 12:30 PM
In my recent election I believe my votes were switched to my opponet. Reason(Miss Code Ann 23-15-333)
Order Candidates names-The ballots must contain the names of the dully qualified candidates in alphabetical order by last name. When the voters voted my name was on top. When the results were reported my opponents name was on top. I believe the names were reversed. Can this happen and how? Not all names were changed.
Thank you
Myrna Bourgeois
Posted by: Myrna Bourgeois at October 21, 2007 12:30 PM
In my recent election I believe my votes were switched to my opponet. Reason(Miss Code Ann 23-15-333)
Order Candidates names-The ballots must contain the names of the dully qualified candidates in alphabetical order by last name. When the voters voted my name was on top. When the results were reported my opponents name was on top. I believe the names were reversed. Can this happen and how? Not all names were changed.
Thank you
Myrna Bourgeois
Posted by: Myrna Bourgeois at October 21, 2007 12:35 PM
In my recent election I believe my votes were switched to my opponet. Reason(Miss Code Ann 23-15-333)
Order Candidates names-The ballots must contain the names of the dully qualified candidates in alphabetical order by last name. When the voters voted my name was on top. When the results were reported my opponents name was on top. I believe the names were reversed. Can this happen and how? Not all names were changed.
Thank you
Myrna Bourgeois
Posted by: Myrna Bourgeois at October 21, 2007 12:36 PM
In my recent election I believe my votes were switched to my opponet. Reason(Miss Code Ann 23-15-333)
Order Candidates names-The ballots must contain the names of the dully qualified candidates in alphabetical order by last name. When the voters voted my name was on top. When the results were reported my opponents name was on top. I believe the names were reversed. Can this happen and how? Not all names were changed.
Thank you
Myrna Bourgeois
Posted by: Myrna Bourgeois at October 21, 2007 12:38 PM
In my recent election I believe my votes were switched to my opponet. Reason(Miss Code Ann 23-15-333)
Order Candidates names-The ballots must contain the names of the dully qualified candidates in alphabetical order by last name. When the voters voted my name was on top. When the results were reported my opponents name was on top. I believe the names were reversed. Can this happen and how? Not all names were changed.
Thank you
Myrna Bourgeois
Posted by: Myrna Bourgeois at October 21, 2007 12:39 PM
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