e-voting a success declares Washington Technology Magazine

[neohippie]

Don't expect the media to challenge the e-voting process! What can we do to show there are problems. This story declares that there were problems in OHIO!

Why isn't this story being investigated by the media?



“The processes that they used in Ohio for voter registration and vote tallying were not up to the task,”


http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/24880-1.html

11/03/04

E-voting passes election test

By William Welsh
Staff Writer

Nearly a third of those who voted in the presidential election cast their votes electronically on systems that performed better than expected, according to election experts.

Although some areas reported minor problems associated with activating new e-voting equipment when the polls opened Nov. 2, there appeared to be no widespread problems with performance.

But experts agreed that significant challenges remain. To retain public confidence in e-voting, government must address concerns about security and establish uniform policies and procedures for operating the equipment.

Christopher Baum, vice president for public-sector research at Gartner Inc., a research and consulting firm in Stamford, Conn., said states that made big investments in new electronic equipment systems before the presidential election seemed to have done very well, while states such as Ohio that put off their investments had problems.

“The processes that they used in Ohio for voter registration and vote tallying were not up to the task,” he said.

Delaware, Georgia, Maryland and Nevada used direct-recording electronic equipment in every county for the first time in a major election.

The positive experience with new e-voting equipment in the presidential election can be attributed partly to fact that a lot of kinks were worked out earlier this year in the primaries, said Amy Santenello, senior research analyst for government studies with market research and consulting firm Meta Group Inc., Stamford, Conn.

“In the primaries, there were a lot of training and change management issues,” she said, but election officials “learned from them and applied those in the presidential election.”

One of the biggest e-voting success stories in the presidential race is Nevada, Santenello said. The state mandated that each poll worker undergo three days of training on the new equipment before the election.

Significantly, problems reported with vote counting were associated almost entirely with paper and not electronic ballots.

“The talk is not about miscounting related to e-voting but about how to count paper ballots accurately, which is a great success story for e-voting,” Santenello said. “This election will go a long way toward boosting public confidence in the e-voting process.”

[robbedvoter]

1. Depending on the goal. they may be right. Look:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=11874&mesg_id=17986&page=

[sadiesworld]

2. I think you need a x2 at the end of your username.

:(

[robbedvoter]

4. I considered an "ex" but dunno how to change handle

[Ducks In A Row]

3. We can rub their whore faces into the problems

they will NEVER report it

ignore the media, they will never help

We have to do it all ourselves.

[drunkdriver-in-chief]

5. Why should media mention it when dems don't?

Gore didn't talk about this in 2000 and kerry isn't now!!! They should, but they aren't so what can the media do?. I know the media is awful but democrats have to go on the offensive and give the press a story if they want coverage. Kerry should call for an investigation into e-voting. Yes - he'd be called a sore loser and so what?

[Cookie wookie]

6. Kerry would be behaving pre-emptively

if he started issuing news of evoting problems before we have evidence, if your topic is to have him address the media about problems with evoting and this election. Let's give voting activists the time to pull together the information they have from the process, see if they can come up with some evidence that's strong enough to take to attorneys, and then K/E can go public on the issue.

We don't want Kerry or the work of electronic voting activists to lose credibility by issuing claims before credible evidence is established that will back it up. He and John Edwards both mentioned in their concession speeches that they would continue with working to insure that every vote was counted (they weren't going to stop even though conceding the election).

Groups like Votewatch and others listed below will examine data voting activists are collecting for evidence of voting fraud in this election. Needless to say this isn't a comprehensive list.

http://eff.org/Activism/E-voting/
http://www.Votewatch.us/
http://www.Verifiedvoting.org/
http://www.calvoter.org/
http://Countthevote.org
http://www.VotersUnite.org
http://www.counteveryvote.org/
http://www.evoting-experts.com/
http://www.acm.org/usacm/weblog/index.php?p=73
http://www.vote.caltech.edu/
http://equalvote.blogspot.com/