EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Susan Pynchon
Organization : | Florida Fair Elections Coalition
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
General Comments
Comment : | The secrecy surrounding the ITA testing process is unacceptable. It is also unacceptable that ITAs are paid by the vendors to approve that vendor's voting system, which is an open invitation to fraud. There is at the very least an appearance of conflict of interest that contradicts basic accounting practices and standards as stated by the American Institute of CPAs. It is comparable to a stock-brokerage firm paying the SEC to investigate it.