Brunner Must Decide Wisely

"You can't test quality into a product, you have to build it in," was the mantra we learned in the 1980's quality movement. The same holds for election integrity. Audits are nothing more than a flawed attempt of trying to test veracity into a corrupt election system. Our experience in Arizona, that the audit was made a farce by the re-elected Secretary of State, that the audit procedure itself can be manipulated such that well meaning people doing as they are told yield worthless results, is proof that auditing is just another venal strategy to keep electronic voting machines as a viable option. They are not!

No more electronic voting machines, ever! A return to hand counted paper ballots (HCPB) is the ONLY answer for the 2008 election. If the state wants to use an opti-scan system that uses paper ballots that can be hand counted to give an unofficial rapid results so be it. Just so long as the official ballot of record is from the hand count.

Secretary of State Brunner has a simple, albeit not simplistic, problem ahead of her. Her answer must address the legions of citizen election integrity activists who very much helped put her in office. She needs to understand that their allegience is not to her, but to election integrity. I trust she will choose wisely.

by Mike Shelby (11 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 21 comments) on Friday, November 24, 2006 at 9:00:00 PM
 

91% of PE Voters Want Transparency

and signed their name to the Roster. My figure above of 84% is a calculation error.

The final PE Report is expected the first week of December.

by Rady Ananda (89 articles, 232 quicklinks, 18 diaries, 646 comments) on Monday, November 27, 2006 at 5:23:49 PM