But all such machines are subject to eventual failures, so there must be a management program to replace them, with new models which have also been certified. We believe that any new equipment (hardware and software) MUST be carefully reviewed and found reliable -- i.e. certified.
Whoops!
The Federal office which should have been doing that, had essentially
drifted into almost non-existence. But it has recently been
re-activated, and new programs are now beginning to obtain Federal
certification. Therefore, jurisdictions like our County and State may
be examining them in the near future.
But the Washington
State certification process is still idle. Therefore, one task of the
public is to push to re-start the WA State certification program, and
assure that those activities adequately review any new computer
systems and then produce Certification Reports on them, so that they
may be acquired. That MUST be done before our ("old") systems
start crashing! Some experts are talking about perhaps only three
more years of life for the current systems (thus, 2018.)
We must insist on having Hand Countable Paper Ballots!
And then, as explained above, use those paper ballots to actually do some hand-counts as a double-check on the machine counts! With these process steps, we can have confidence that our votes have been correctly counted and reported.
ANYTHING ELSE?
Well, yes. There are the questions of who may have a ballot and who will mark it? Those are for another report.
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A
Public Education article, by the Whatcom Fair Voting team, in
operation for over a decade.
Whatcom
Fair Voting (WFV) is a non-partisan ad-hoc grassroots citizens group
working to promote electoral process integrity by:
- Researching voting improvements
- Encouraging full citizen participation
- Informing the public and elected officials on voting issues
- Supporting safeguards to ensure fair & accurate voting, accountability & process transparency
- Monitoring elections legislation
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