But here it is: Black Box Voting believes that H.B. 550 is unwise. It will not
be effective to improve citizen oversight or election integrity. It is
dangerous, because the weakness of the antibiotic will create a more resistant
strain of election manipulation.
The likelihood is that, if H.B. 550 is passed, it will simply "prove" that
electronic voting works "fine."
It was a "fine" election...
As another blogger noted, notice the frequency with which elected officials are
now using that word. I suppose it's an improvement over a couple years ago,
when they called us "terrorists", but I still scratch my head when I hear the
new talking point: "We had a fine election." Not "we had an accurate election."
Not "we had a fair election." We had a fine election. What do they mean by
that?
Well, rest assured that electronic voting will look just "fine" under the Holt
bill because, as Paul Lehto notes, the way the audits are set up they won't
catch anything to make the election look "not fine." To solve the inadequate
auditing provisions in the Holt bill will require drafting a whole new bill.
So if H.B. 550 is passed, everyone will pat themselves on the back and go home
and not a damn thing will actually change, except that more taxpayer money will
be expended for retrofitted machines.
The inside game people want the current kinds of technology to work
And -- note the players involved -- many of them will have no role in this if
they don't make the current kinds of technology work. Note the recent Wyle Labs
transcript, where Systest Labs refers to the meeting in Nov. 2005 -- you know,
the one where all the industry perps showed up but the public, and even the
chair of the California Senate Elections Committee were excluded. Systest
reports that the academics seem to be heading toward creating an IV&V effort,
another layer of testing and certifying.
More taxpayer money, more scientists, more paychecks, more layers of complexity,
more people to point the finger at when elections turn out to be secret
unsubstantiated messes.
The inside game has tolerance for a much longer timeline
You don't need to hurry if you don't think any crimes will be committed.
The inside game is addressing what they percieve to be the problem by adding a
"vvpat" and quibbling over just how to do a 2 percent audit, or layering test
labs into the process, or ponderously altering standards in response to
critical security failures, while grandfathering old systems in for years.
No major reform movement will survive without the outside game
The civil rights movement would not have gotten very far without the outside
game. Rosa Parks was outside game. The Selma-to-Montgomery March was outside
game. The civil rights workers -- some of whom were killed -- were outside
game.
The anti-Viet Nam movement would have failed without the outside game. Viet Nam
Vets Against the War were outside game. Burning draft cards was outside game.
The outside game knows it needs the inside game, because when the message is
sufficiently focused and the goals are sufficiently clear and the people
themselves are beginning to drive the train, it gets pitched to the inside game
and changes are made to legislation.
be effective to improve citizen oversight or election integrity. It is
dangerous, because the weakness of the antibiotic will create a more resistant
strain of election manipulation.
The likelihood is that, if H.B. 550 is passed, it will simply "prove" that
electronic voting works "fine."
It was a "fine" election...
As another blogger noted, notice the frequency with which elected officials are
now using that word. I suppose it's an improvement over a couple years ago,
when they called us "terrorists", but I still scratch my head when I hear the
new talking point: "We had a fine election." Not "we had an accurate election."
Not "we had a fair election." We had a fine election. What do they mean by
that?
bill because, as Paul Lehto notes, the way the audits are set up they won't
catch anything to make the election look "not fine." To solve the inadequate
auditing provisions in the Holt bill will require drafting a whole new bill.
So if H.B. 550 is passed, everyone will pat themselves on the back and go home
and not a damn thing will actually change, except that more taxpayer money will
be expended for retrofitted machines.
The inside game people want the current kinds of technology to work
And -- note the players involved -- many of them will have no role in this if
they don't make the current kinds of technology work. Note the recent Wyle Labs
transcript, where Systest Labs refers to the meeting in Nov. 2005 -- you know,
the one where all the industry perps showed up but the public, and even the
chair of the California Senate Elections Committee were excluded. Systest
reports that the academics seem to be heading toward creating an IV&V effort,
another layer of testing and certifying.
More taxpayer money, more scientists, more paychecks, more layers of complexity,
more people to point the finger at when elections turn out to be secret
unsubstantiated messes.
The inside game has tolerance for a much longer timeline
You don't need to hurry if you don't think any crimes will be committed.
The inside game is addressing what they percieve to be the problem by adding a
"vvpat" and quibbling over just how to do a 2 percent audit, or layering test
labs into the process, or ponderously altering standards in response to
critical security failures, while grandfathering old systems in for years.
No major reform movement will survive without the outside game
The civil rights movement would not have gotten very far without the outside
game. Rosa Parks was outside game. The Selma-to-Montgomery March was outside
game. The civil rights workers -- some of whom were killed -- were outside
game.
The anti-Viet Nam movement would have failed without the outside game. Viet Nam
Vets Against the War were outside game. Burning draft cards was outside game.
The outside game knows it needs the inside game, because when the message is
sufficiently focused and the goals are sufficiently clear and the people
themselves are beginning to drive the train, it gets pitched to the inside game
and changes are made to legislation.
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