News from our ERD: Florida wants limited voting machine checks

[rumpel]

Miami Herald

Posted on Fri, Jun. 09, 2006

ELECTIONS
State wants limited voting machine checks
State election officials have proposed new restrictions on testing voting machines in the wake of a test that exposed security flaws in one system.
BY GARY FINEOUT
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TALLAHASSEE - Months after a maverick elections supervisor irritated a leading voting-machine company and state officials by conducting unorthodox tests on voting equipment -- and finding security problems -- the state wants to make it harder for counties to check voting machines.

The state is proposing rules that require all 67 election supervisors in Florida to get approval from the state Division of Elections before testing their voting equipment for any problems, including whether or not it has security flaws or if the vote-counting software is working correctly.

The new rule would require county supervisors to submit a ''testing plan'' to the division, as well as to notify the maker of the machine before the test can take place. Any results of the test would have to be sent to state officials.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/14776132.htm

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Incredibly, unspeakably transparent.

And they will no doubt get away with it.

[spartan61]

2. Ummm, am I reading this wrong?

Does this really say that because an election official conducted tests on a voting machine and found security flaws, now the an election supervisor has to apply for permission to conduct security checks? Unbelievable!!! I say, get rid of ALL voting machines and do it the old fashioned way...paper ballots! What a novel idea that would be.

[Lib Grrrrl]

3. WTF?!?!

Okay, lemme see if I got this right...

They found security problems, so...INSTEAD OF FIXING THE FUCKING PROBLEM...they decide to make it harder for counties to test the machines looking for security problems??

Ohhhhhhh, never mind, I just figgered it out...IF THEY DON'T FIND ANY SECURITY PROBLEMS...IT MEANS THERE ARE NO SECURITY PROBLEMS so, of course, the way to achieve that is to make the security problems impossible to find! Heaven forbid we should actually FIX THE FUCKING SECURITY PROBLEMS!! Can't have anything resembling a FAIR ELECTION, now, can we?? :sarcasm:

Damn, folks, we need some ADS...TV ads, about this shit...done in the manner of the "Truth" ads for anti-smoking...you know, the "Whudafxup?" ads? We need to make some of our own "Whudafxup?" ads about fucking voting machines!! :wtf: