The one coming up, you know, 2008!
Here's why:
"Many voting machines decertified in Colorado; Official faults accuracy, security" by George Merritt, Associated Press | December 19, 2007
DENVER - Colorado's secretary of state has declared many of the state's electronic voting machines to be unreliable, but said yesterday that some could still be used in November if a software patch was installed.
Secretary of State Mike Coffman said in his announcement Monday, that Colorado's actions would have national repercussions:
"What we have found is that the federal certification process is inadequate."
In Ohio, the state that narrowly gave President Bush his win in 2004, a review concluded last week that electronic voting machines are vulnerable to security breaches and human error.
Touch-screen machines have been purchased across the nation to comply with the federal Help America Vote Act. Nationally, $3 billion was spent to replace the punch-card voting system that faltered in the 2000 election."
Yup, the RIGGING SYSTEM was PUT IN PLACE because of the 200 FIASCO!
$3 BILLION for a PIECE of CRAP!
"Colorado Decertifies Machines for Voting" by DAN FROSCH
DENVER — Thousands of Colorado’s electronic voting machines do not work properly and have been decertified, according to a review by the Colorado secretary of state that has left elections officials scrambling to find viable machines in time for local and Congressional primary elections in August and the presidential election in November.
At a hearing at the state Capitol on Tuesday, the secretary of state, Mike Coffman, urged legislators to amend state law “due to extraordinary circumstances” so counties could fix the machines for next year’s primaries on Aug. 12 and the general election on Nov. 4.
They have ALREADY DONE THAT!
He asked lawmakers to allow counties to use a software patch that could potentially improve their electronic voting systems and suggested that once those improvements were made, testing data from other states be used to expedite the certification process in Colorado.
The review, by electronic voting systems experts, outside auditors and cyber-security specialists, found multiple problems with machines that were made by Sequoia Voting Systems, Hart InterCivic and Election Systems & Software and that are used in 52 of Colorado’s 64 counties, including Denver.
Two types of Sequoia electronic machines could not accurately trace security breaches, the review found. Hart’s optical scan machines did not count votes accurately, and the optical scan and electronic machines made by Election Systems & Software suffered programming errors and could be disabled by voters.
Yeah, SHIT MACHINES we are VOTING ON!
Aaaaaaaaahhhhh!
All three companies defended their machines, saying they had been used successfully throughout the country. Last week, the Ohio secretary of state, Jennifer Brunner, released a review of electronic voting systems there that found critical security flaws in systems by Hart and Election Systems & Software, as well as another company, Premier Election Solutions, formerly known as Diebold.
Nancy Doty, the Arapahoe County clerk and recorder, said Mr. Coffman had just decertified 225 Sequoia touch screen machines she bought last year for $1.3 million:
“I was very disappointed, but we will be working with the state to address any concerns. One way or another, I will have an election next year.”
Yeah, CROOKED or NOT, she's gonna have an "election!"
