[ale] [OT] E-Voting -- SB500 Hearing THURSDAY

[Bob Owen]

I saw a bit of the report on the news tonight that gave this web site as 
a resource to deal with electronic voting problems.
http://www.verifiedvoting.org/

Bob

aaron wrote:

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>State and Local Government Operations
>Committee Meeting:
>
>THURSDAY, MARCH 4th, 4:00 pm 
>Legislative Office Building, Room 310
>(across the street from South end of State Capitol building) 
>
>To support SB500, requiring voter verifiable Paper Ballot Printouts
>on the Georgia's electronic voting systems.
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>
>Now a little background as to why you need to be there if you can:
>
>I have been pursuing the Georgia electronic vote machine issues very actively 
>for the past several weeks, in part as a representative of many ALE members 
>who have expressed serious concerns with the security and fraud 
>vulnerabilities of the current Diebold voting systems. Following is a brief 
>rundown of what's been happening recently and where things stand:
>
>-- There are TWO bills in process for the General Assembly that would require 
>voter verifiable paper ballot printouts to be a component of the touch screen 
>systems: SB340 and SB500
><http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/sum/sb340.htm>
><http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/sum/sb500.htm>
>
>-- One of these bills, SB500 is currently before the State and Local 
>Government Operations committee [SLOGO] for review and vote to get on the 
>calendar. Committee details and member contact info are here:
><http://www.legis.state.ga.us/cgi-bin/gl_org_detail.pl?Com=gasslgo>
>
>-- Tuesday, 2004.02.24 saw the first SLOGO committee meeting on this bill. I 
>was present and gave testimony, along with several other members of the 
>various groups working in our coalition to fix the voting system.
>
>-- Nine members of this coalition, including myself, also managed to arrange a  
>meeting with Cathy Cox on Friday, 2004.02.29. We presented much well 
>researched evidence of the Diebold system problems, but little progress came 
>of the meeting.  The obstinate and ignorant (bordering on absurd) stance of 
>the Secretary of State's office is that the coordinated, large group 
>conspiracies need to perpetrate fraud against the paper ballot verifications 
>are more likely and possible than the single point entry needed to perpetrate 
>massive fraud on insecure computer systems that lack any kind of paper audit 
>trail (which would provide proof when such computer fraud occurred).
>
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>-- A second SLOGO committee meeting is scheduled for:
>
>   THURSDAY, MARCH 4th, 4:00 pm 
>   Legislative Office Building, Room 310
>  (across the street from South end of State Capitol building) 
>
>Anyone who can attend to show support for this issue should be there.
>
>The committee has requested demonstrations of touch screen systems that 
>include the desperately needed voter verified ballot printout and paper audit 
>trail. There may be opportunity for other testimony to be heard as well, so 
>if you have something you want to add to the issue, you should research the 
>details and prepare a brief statement.
>
>Again, in all cases, if there is any way you can attend you should be there.
>
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>peace
>aaron
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