1) MORATORIUM - A withdrawal of support and a moratorium on HR 550 or any other legislation proposed to amend the Help America Vote Act until the true effects of HAVA have been investigated. HAVA was a sweeping election reform bill that has had innumerable negative consequences on the nation. We must take the opportunity to analyze and assess exactly what is has led to and what needs to be done about it.
2) ACCOUNTABILITY - A GAO report for our study and analysis during this time out. The report must assess HAVA, monies spent, to whom, and to what end result. The report must provide an analysis of hand count paper ballot systems, DRE (touchscreen) and opscan systems as well. The report must include a study of the e-voting industry, their products, and the EAC Certification program.
3) DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN - HAVA turned our elections in many states into IT systems (information technology). Since Y2K, federal and state agencies are supposed to have in place disaster recovery plans for their IT systems. We have seen for numerous states in election 2006 the disaster recovery plan, appropriately being implemented via hand counted paper ballot systems. In other states where this was not done, they simply suffered a disaster. So for those states that have been affected by the e-voting disaster, and most particularly as we have seen, the DRE IT disaster, immediate assistance to design the recovery plan which will be to implement hand count paper ballot systems. This is the only plan that fits within the government issued guidelines for information technology systems. The disaster recovery plan will be in place during the moratorium and accountability period. This plan must also be in place for op scan systems, which are also IT systems.
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