EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Terry Andre
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/9/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 6.7
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Comment : | EAC must act to increase trust in America I am deeply concerned that the electronic voting machines that have no VOTER VERIFIABLE PAPER TRAIL will lead to a permanent state of distrust of our elected officials. 1. Every voting machine must have a paper trail for each voter, and it must be verified by the voter. 2. EAC must eliminate ANY AND ALL proprietary equipment or software from being used for our most important right. 3. We the people can provide excellent and superior software though OPEN SOFTWARE – Open Software has been a common, proven technology for over 40 years. 4. Voting must be a transparent process. Never again should anyone be concerned about vote-counting such as happened in Florida and Ohio. 5. Security must be insured – you cannot use wireless transmission. Everyone should be aware that wireless is easily tapped into. Never send a credit card over wireless, and never send a vote count. BlackBoxVoting and Open Voting Consortium have excellent proposals. PLEASE consider them. If you don't take actions to secure our votes, I am encouraging every one I know to vote the ONLY RESPONSIBLE AND VERIFIABLE METHOD OPEN TO US TODAY~~ABSENTEE. Imagine the increase in costs to local voting budgets if the nation shifts to absentee voting because it cannot trust the equipment.