EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Judy Schriebman
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/9/2005
General Comments
Comment : | Dear Commissioners: You have an important task of developing or affirming a dependable, easily usable for a variety of people, accurate voting system. Nothing is more important in a working democracy than the "one person, one vote". It is indeed troubling that you are even considering adopting privately controlled, wireless, easily hackable and tamperable, electronic voting systems produced from companies who are already at fault for inadequately managing what should be a simple task: counting the votes accurately. The current version of the VVSG has serious flaws in need of correction. Voting technology must be standardized. Transparency must be preeminent. Strong election audit procedures must be established. There must be protection against tampering. Trade secret status has a long history of abusing the public. The Freedom of Information Act illustrates why we need open voting. By inference, the right to vote holds more legal weight than does profiteering by means of trade secrets.