CA: Most e-vote systems should be up to snuff by June (Diebold on hold)

[Wilms]

Most e-vote systems should be up to snuff by June

Diebold has national hurdle to clear before state approves

By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER

After months of anxiety, California elections officials learned Wednesday that nearly a half-dozen voting systems could be ready for purchase and use in the June primary.

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Only Diebold Election Systems Inc., which has struggled for more than two years for California approval, was still in national testing Wednesday for its new flagship voting system. But state elections officials said Diebold still could clear that final hurdle and supply voting equipment to nearly a third of California counties, including Alameda, San Joaquin and Marin.

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A Huntsville, Ala., lab still is performing that examination. If it finds the vulnerabilities are limited and can be addressed by tighter physical security over voting-machine components, California officials could approve Diebold's latest touch-screen and optical-scanning machines in as little as two weeks, in part because the system already has been through state examination and public hearings.

All the other voting systems and makers — Hart InterCivic, Election Systems & Software, Sequoia Voting Systems and Populex — still face state scrutiny plus a barrage of public hearings in the first two weeks of March.

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http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_3467746

[Atman]

1. "tighter physical security" BULLSHIT

"tighter physical security" means posting guards or making sure the machines are locked up. NOT fixing the machines. And if "physical security" is all that they proposed, forget it. "physical security" can easily be bribed, disappeared, distracted, etc...nothing is worthwhile except an auditable, verifiable vote trail. Nothing. Post 100 guards, the GOP has enough money to bribe every one of them. No human interaction should be required. Mechanical machines never required armed guards to make sure they cranks actually cranked. This is total, utter bullshit.

But it's a good start. Keep Diehard in the spotlight.

[Wilms]

2. Agreed. That is what caught my eye.

I'm wondering if the SoS, even the ITA/EAC, could be sued for certifying a machine that hasinterpreter code on it.

[phoebe]

3. once again, remind you that this "Huntsville, Ala lab" was in on the

Diebold election fix from the beginnning. Cyber, the Election Center and Doug R. Lewis and Shawn Southworth - do your homework.

[furrball]

4. the operative word is "snuff"

they'll be up to snuff.

Snuff isn't good.