EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Warren Smith
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 6.7
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Comment : | SECTION 6.7: WIRELESS: Imagine a law intended to protect us from nuclear weapons that read "it is perfectly ok for you to own a nuclear weapon and keep in in your house, although we look down upon that practice. All we ask (as a purely voluntary guideline, not required by law) is this: if you do choose to own a nuclear weapon, then you must sign a piece of paper saying you agree only to use it in the following authorized ways." Well that is precisely what this ludicrous section does. It essentially says to possibly-corrupt voting machine manufacturers (and let me note: the major US voting machine companies contain known convicted criminals - bribery, theft, fraud, drug trafficking - in high management positions, and quite possibly employees who have been bribed by foreign intelligence agencies - in fact it is wholy legal for those employees or even owners to literally BE foreign nationals who ADMIT to also being employees of foreign intelligence agencies... and indeed US voting machine companies HAVE been owned by rich foreigners from non-democratic countries, who almost certainly were closely linked to that country's rulers): Hey! It is perfectly ok if you put wireless communications devices in your voting machines which would allow anybody within a mile to reprogram or control those machines to do whatever he wants - PROVIDED you sign a piece of paper (e.g. see 6.7.2.5 & 6.7.5.2 for typical laughably unenforceable examples - actually checking to see if these criteria are satisfied is well known to be a Turing-undecidable problem) saying "I certify my wireless interfaces will not be used in those bad ways."