[Sosfbay-discuss] Electoral Integrity Sunday Night in Palo Alto 7 p.m.

[Andrea Dorey]

Brian,
I found that bit about the optical scan when I trotted in with my  
absentee ballot, looked around, and asked The Big Question: who  
counts the absentee ballots?  I was devastated.  Although convenient,  
it isn't a solution for the hacking frauds.
Where to now?
Andrea

On Feb 16, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Brian Good wrote:

> An evening with Dr. Steven Freeman and Paul Lehto.
>
> Dr. Freeman, you may recall, did the statistical analysis of the
> 2004 presidential election that showed bizarre anomalies in
> Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania.
>
> Paul Lehto filed an innovative lawsuit against Snohomish County
> in Washington State alleging (if I remember right) that counting
> the votes electronically by the Sequoia Systems voting machine
> company represented an illegal outsourcing of the registrar's job.
> He also spearheaded the lawsuits in the San Diego Busby/Billray
> congressional election case.
>
> http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/ 
> Election_lawyer_to_file_legal_contest_0731.html
>
> Given the recent publicity about Princeton University's finding
> that the Sequoia Systems voting machines can be easily hacked (1),
> and the fact that Santa Clara County uses Sequoia Systems
> machines, this county has the potential to be ground zero for a
> "reject the vapor ballots" initiative.  Dr. David Dill, one of the
> foremost experts on electronic voting, is right here at Stanford.
>
> I observed the vote counting in 2005 and saw potential vulnerabilities
> in Santa Clara County's system.  First off, using a paper absentee
> ballot makes no difference at all.  They are counted on optical scan
> machines that are not simple unhackable appliances at all.  Each
> scanner is as big as the largest copy machine you ever saw.  Each
> one has a keyboard and a monitor.  All the scanners are networked
> together to an accumulator PC, and the counts from this are
> transmitted to the same refrigerator-sized computers in the back room
> that count the votes from the electronic modules.
>
> Second, the registrar's office can not run a vote count with its own
> personnel.  When I was there three Sequoia Systems people were
> essential to the process--in the most computer-literate county
> in the world, running Arnold's very simple special election.
>
> This state of affairs is ridiculous, and if we can't assemble an army
> of nerds to get rid of the black box machines here, we can't do
> it anywhere.
>
> So I encourage everybody to come to hear Dr. Freeman and Mr.
> Lehto on Sunday.
>
> When:  	Sunday, February 18 2007 @ 07:00 PM PST - 09:00PM
> Where: 	Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto
> 505 E. Charleston Rd.
> Palo Alto, CA 94036
> Description: 	An evening with Steven Freeman and Paul Lehto.
>
> Dr. Freeman is the co-author of Was the 2004 Presidential Election  
> Stolen? and is currently a visiting scholar at the University of  
> Pennsylvania in the Graduate Program of Organizational Dynamics.
>
> Paul Lehto is a Washington state attorney and was selected as  
> counsel for the election contest related to the Busby Billbray  
> special election in California's 50th Congressional District.
>
> http://peaceandjustice.org/calendar_event.php? 
> mode=&eid=20070207151203966
>
> 1.  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4141
>
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