A freelance journalist's analysis on DRE's one year ago. Comments?

[rumpel]

"Why the League of Women Voters Is Wrong on E-Voting"
A Point-by-Point Rebuttal
By Eric A. Smith

it is very long but worth reading

exerpt:
6. The Sequioa machines have an open port that can be used to reprogram them DURING an ELECTION.

exerpt:
Unfortunately, SAIC isn’t as “independent” as this statement would lead you to believe.
Lynn Landes writes:
"Former President, Chief Operating Officer, and Vice Chairman of SAIC is Admiral Bill Owens, who is now Chairman of the Board for VoteHere. Owens also served as Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and was a senior military assistant to Secretaries of Defense Frank Carlucci and Dick Cheney. Carlucci’s company is Carlyle Group, while Vice President Dick Cheney’s former employer is Halliburton.
“Another former SAIC board member, also on the board of VoteHere, is ex-CIA director Robert Gates, a veteran of the Iran/Contra scandal.
“VoteHere is already benefiting from the Diebold debacle, as it will be partnering with Sequoia Voting Systems, ‘to provide a new level of electronic ballot verification to customers of the AVC Edge touch screen voting system,’ according to the VoteHere website.
“SAIC, which is supposed to vet Diebold’s elections software, is itself in the elections business."
So maybe it’s no surprise that their assessment of Diebold (not that I’m arguing) was that “the system, as implemented in policy, procedure, and technology, is at high risk of compromise” (section 2.5).

http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/ericsmith01202004/

[k8conant]

1. What he said is right...but what do we do now?

Without the code and the machines we're still up the creek without a paddle.

[rumpel]

2. Put pressure on all levels to investigate, especially those with supeona

power.