I worked out a new voting system that,
combining the good points of paper voting with those of computing,
guarantees quick, honest and verifiable results.
Please read details at
www.ClearVoting.com
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News
2003-11-23
California goes verifiable!
news coming from www.verifiedvoting.org
Last Friday, November 21, California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley
announced that the state will require an accessible voter-verifiable paper
audit trail VVPATs on all voting equipment by July 2006. His announcement was a
response to rising concern in California, along with the rest of the nation,
about the increasing use of computerized touch-screen voting systems.
In February 2003 Secretary Shelley appointed a task force, including yours
truly, to analyze touch-screen voting and report its recommendations. Our
final report included many recommendations to improve the security of
electronic voting systems. It also included a recommendation to require a
voter-verifiable audit trail on all new election equipment by 2007. Kim
Alexander of the California Voter Foundation, Dr. David Jefferson of
Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, and I strongly expressed the need to impose
such a requirement much sooner.
Even though we were in the minority, Secretary Shelley was obviously
listening - to us and to over 4,000 letters his office received favoring a
voter-verifiable paper trail requirement. His order is more aggressive than
the task force recommendation. It requires that all equipment purchased
after July 1, 2005 include a voter-verifiable paper trail, and it bans
paperless touch-screen machines by July 2006.
While many of us would have liked to see an even more aggressive timeline,
this announcement is still a WIN of huge proportions. Remember, the entire
country has been watching California. We are such a big market for voting
equipment that vendors are sure to produce equipment to meet our
requirements and those machines will be available everywhere else in the
country.
You can read the news release here:
www.ss.ca.gov/executive/press_releases/2003/03_106.pdf
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