NY: It's the VENDORS Stupid!

[Bill Bored]

NYSTEC Finds NY SBOE Voting Machine Tests 'Quite Good'

By Rady Ananda
July 11, 2008

http://www.opednews.com/articles/NYSTEC-Finds-NY-SBOE-Votin-by-Rady-Ananda-080711-393.html

In the July 9th testing in Nassau, Sequoia discovered a 25% failure rate.

Something's wrong somewhere. If not in the SBOE certification process, then in the choice of frail software driven systems that cannot survive shipment or that are poorly designed.

New York is under a court order to deploy these frail, non-functional systems before the fall elections. Yet, Sequoia is having trouble meeting production demands. There simply are not enough functional machines on the market.

Court orders ought to be based in reality. Judge Gary Sharpe and the Department of Justice seem overly focused on HAVA-compliance, requiring that disabled accessible devices be deployed to every polling site this year. No regard is given to the cost, security, reliability, or functionality of such systems, or that enough even exist to meet the Court's order.

http://re-mediaetc.blogspot.com/

[Wilms]

1. Oh, now. Don't forget testing labs.

When asked about the NYSTEC findings, Nassau County Commissioner Bill Biamonte said, "This report is CYA."

[kster]

2. Why does your bank want you to count "your paper money before you leave the window/bank"

but for some reason the politicians , want your paper ballots to LEAVE the window/neighborhood/polling place, before the paper ballots are HAND COUNTED?

Ask yourself this question, PLEASE.

[eridani]

3. If elections boards even bothered to act like normal businesses evaluating equipment

--the vendors would be less of a problem. After all, Diebold offers open source software for its ATMs because its customers in the banking world insist on it. Businesses have specifications for products and equipment that they want to buy, and vendors meet them or it's no sale. Elections boards act like credulous saps. "Well, if that's what you have, I guess we'll take it."

[Bill Bored]

4. kick nt