Who is Supporting and Who is Opposing Current Election Reform Legislation?

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Computer technicians and computer scientists wrote papers showing that the time frames that these election reform bills require for developing and implementing new requirements for voting equipment are unreasonable, and would be virtually unenforceable and could cause a repeat of the HAVA-like buying cycle of voting equipment prior to when standards and proper certification and enforcement procedures could be established.

Black Box Voting’s Bev Harris, Blogger Brad Friedman, Dopp, Tobi, John Gideon of Voters Unite, Bruce O’Dell of the National Election Defense Alliance, and many others wrote lists of reasons why these election reform bills would not work as written.

In sum, the Holt, Clinton, Nelson, and Tubbs-Jones bills face substantial opposition and seem unlikely to pass in the Senate.

An upcoming sequel to this article will present an alternative proposal for election reform legislation that was written over many months by election activists, computer scientists, and election officials, that recommends splitting election integrity legislation into several bills that each address fewer topics; requires sufficient citizen oversight; allows reasonable time frames for implementing secure, publicly disclosed election technology for voters with disabilities and with alternative language requirements; does not reauthorize the U.S. E.A.C.; bans practices which disenfranchise voters; and requires sufficient manual audits to ensure the accuracy of all federal election outcomes by 2008; where the best measures in the Holt and Clinton bills would be split into sections and redrafted into new, more practically achievable bills. Any help that you can be in getting this legislation sponsored would be greatly appreciated.

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[1] Warren Stewart of VoteTrustUSA testimony on election reform before the House Admin Committee: http://electionarchive.net/docs_other/HearingTestimony/StewartTestimony.doc

[2] Doug Kellner, NYS Board of Elections Co-Chair’ comments: http://www.wheresthepaper.org/CommentDouglasAKellner.htm

[3] Joint letter of National Association of Counties and National Conference of State Legislatures http://electionarchive.net/docs_other/HearingTestimony/NCSL-NACoopposeHoltBill.pdf

[4] Testimony of Doug Lewis before the Election Reform Hearing of the House Administration Committee click here

[5] Trust our Officials?” Dr. Charles Corry’s bibliography on “Questionable (and crooked) Election Officials” http://www.ejfi.org/Voting/Voting-51.htm#clerk Dr. Corry is an engineer and former Marine corporal.

[6] in 2003 with the lobbying firm, Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) to help Diebold, Sequoia, ES&S and other voting machine vendors. See http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_andi_nov_070322_halting_holt_thought.htm

[7] In fact all three have opposed requirements which would make voting machines independently auditable.

[8] “Fool Me Once: Checking Vote Count Integrity” click here Audit Election Audit Costs” http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/TierElectionAuditEval.pdf

[9] DeForest Soaries says that “EAC and Federal efforts for election reform 'A Charade,' 'Travesty'!
http://www.ejfi.org/Voting/Voting-6.htm#soaries

"Why not Re-Authorize the EAC" http://electionarchive.net/docs_other/EAC-DoNotReauthorize.pdf

"The US Election Assistance Commission Has Not Done its Job" http://www.votersunite.org/info/TestimonyTheisen03-13-07.pdf

[10] for voters with disabilities and for publicly disclosed software

[11] “Avoid Another HAVA Train Wreck: Software Disclosure Requirements are a Good Long Term Goal but Need to Be Redrafted in Current Federal Election Integrity Legislation.” http://electionarchive.net/docs_other/dopp/VotingSystemSoftwareDisclosure.pdf
David Wagner, computer scientist’s testimony on election reform before the House Admin committee: http://electionarchive.net/docs_other/HearingTestimony/wagner.pdf Refer also to endnote xiii.

[12] “Critical changes are needed to Holt’s HR811”
http://electionarchive.org/ucvInfo/US/ChangesNeeded2HR811.pdf

“Holt's HR 811, A Deceptive Boondoggle -- 10 Blunders to Fix” by Bruce O’Dell http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_bruce_o__070221_holt_s_hr_811_a_dece.htm
“What's Wrong with Holt II (HR 811)” by Bev Harris of Black Box Voting http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_bev_harr_070208_what_s_wrong_with_ho.htm
“Summary of E-Voting as a Ponzy Scheme” by Nancy Tobi of Democracy for New Hampshire http://www.democracyfornewhampshire.com/node/view/3571 or http://www.democracyfornewhampshire.com/files/PonziSummary.pdf

“New Version of Holt Bill: A Giant Step Backwards” by Nancy Tobi of Democracy for New Hampshire
click here

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