[Voterescue] Letters re: e-voting in todays Statesman!

[Jenny Clark]

http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/stories/07/21/0721letters_edit.html

Voting machines
Re: July 5 article "Electronic voting has support."
The Texas Legislature's House Elections Committee invited our group 
to bring in four expert witnesses to speak about the security 
concerns of voting on electronic equipment.
They presented scathing, documented evidence, including a 
demonstration by a computer programmer showing the ease of hacking an 
election in ways undetectable to election officials and bypassing all 
of their "security" testing.
I have studied this subject for five years, and I will never trust my 
vote to a machine run on secret proprietary software that has been 
proven to be unsafe for use. The experts agree and testified that 
Texans should not be voting on these machines.
ABBE WALDMAN DELOZIER
VoteRescue
Austin

Of course e-voting machine companies gave assurances at the Elections 
Committee hearing that their machines are safe; they have vested 
interests to the tune of millions of our taxpayer dollars.
Election officials reported on the smooth operation of the machines 
during elections but can offer no guarantees that our votes are 
counted as cast.
Technical experts gave condemning reviews of e-voting and presented 
the facts. They thoroughly refuted claims that testing procedures and 
improved training would catch attempts to defraud elections. These 
independent experts testified that paper ballots have consistently 
lower error rates.
It's time for election officials to demand a recall and give refunds 
on e-voting machines. We support a ban on e-voting and strongly 
advise a return to hand-counted paper ballots.
VICKIE KARP
vickievoter at gmail.com
National chair, Coalition for Visible Ballots
Austin
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