Voting System Recommended For Federal Certification By Unqualified Person

Voting System Recommended For Federal Certification By Unqualified Person

LA County's System, for example, Was Apparently Approved for Use at the Fed Level by a Former Waitress/Bartender!

By John Gideon, Executive Director VotersUnite.Org

6/26/2006

The next step in the process is review of the ITA test and the voting system by a panel of 'experts' called the Voting Systems Board Technical Committee. This committee is under the auspices of the National Association of State Elections Directors (NASED). One might think that this part of the process would be free and clear of any reason for concern. One would be wrong…

According to a presentation made by Sandy Steinbach, the chairperson of the NASED Voting Systems Board Technical Committee, the three members of her panel are all computer engineers and elections experts. This presentation was made during a conference of federal, state, and local election officials hosted by the California Secretary of State, November 28 and 29, 2005. Slide 10 in Steinbach's Power Point Presentation says:

NASED Voting Systems Board
Oversees the Qualification process
Works with the ITAs to assure compliance with the test standards
Technical committee of 3 people who are both computer engineers and election experts reviews all ITA reports

Those members are Paul Craft, Steve Freeman and Dr. Britain Williams, none of whom are computer engineers. Arguably, none are elections experts either. And, the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) knows this and has said nothing about it. In fact EAC Commissioners Donetta Davidson and Paul DeGregorio and EAC Secretariat Brian Hancock sat on the same panel as Steinbach as she gave this presentation.

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