EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Cem Kaner
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
General Comments
Comment : | - Some partisans, Democrat and Republican, adopt positions about voting equipment technology that reflect what they individually believe will benefit their favored party. I am not attributing these attitudes to the political parties themselves. I am stating as fact that I have met individuals who base their public positions on their personal beliefs that voting equipment systems do (or do not) need to be ¡°fixed¡± because any errors (or vote-rigging) have worked to the detriment (or the advantage) of their favored political parties. The misperception of voting system insecurity as merely another opportunity for competition between American political parties reflects a misunderstanding of the grave risks to our national security. We are a country at war. Our enemies have strong incentive to surreptitiously alter the results of our elections. So do many organized crime syndicates and some other foreign governments. All of them have all of the money and access to technologically sophisticated people that they would need to exploit vulnerabilities in our systems¡ªit is just a matter of time before they exploit the vulnerabilities that we leave for them. National standards for voting systems must require genuinely high levels of security.