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ES&S must take responsibility for fulfilling the contracts they chose to sign in servicing those states to which they pitched their wares. Clearly, they saw a huge opportunity for making millions of dollars via the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) billions of dollars in federal funding for states to upgrade their voting equipment. What Secretary Ireland is ignoring is that ES&S was presented with an apple from which they have taken a bite that was too big and they are now choking on that bite and it is ultimately the voters - who Ireland is obligated to serve -- that will end up being hurt in the bargain. Already, WV counties are talking about ignoring the HAVA mandate to provide accessible voting for voters with disabilities. How many more voters will have to suffer before Secretary Ireland and others admit they made a mistake.
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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