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| | Name : | Cem Kaner | Organization : | N/A | Post Date : | 9/30/2005 |
| Comment : | Disputes about the reasonable levels of security for voting systems are often characterized in terms of
partisan politics. There is a perception, shared by a few million American voters, that the voting system
has been exploited, primarily in recent past by the Republican party, in order to steal elections. It is not
relevant to my Comments whether this perception is accurate. What is relevant is that:
- The auditing and recounting capabilities for our voting systems are so grossly inadequate that it
is impossible to settle the perception of rigged elections using empirical methods. As a
consequence, the results of the elections become matters for political spin and voter faith. This
is an unacceptable level of assurance for financial accounting, let alone for voting-process
accounting. The inability of our government to provide authoritative results for the 2000,
2002 and 2004 elections is toxic for American democracy. A draft standard for voting systems
that does not establish credible auditability is fundamentally inadequate. | |
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