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Re: Hard technical details/scare stories for Avante, Hart, and Sequoia?

How about looking for the good and not the bad?

Scotty Allen wrote:

Hi all,

I'm trying to piece together more technical info about the
problems/inadequacies of the systems offered/proposed by Avente, Hart,
and Sequoia.  Diebold info seems to be overwhelming, but from
conversations I had at the meeting last night, it sounds like they're
out of the running for Boulder anyway, due to the bad experiences
Boulder election officials have had in the last few years with the
Diebold mail-in scanning system they've been using.

There's been a bunch of complete trash written in the Daily Camera about the clerk and what the clerk's office is up to. Diebold might get a deal for a high speed scanner to read the absentee ballots or our idea of a VVPB, but they were never the odds on favorite.
The DC published a letter this week that said that the clerk was going to buy Diebold. Completely untrue.


I'm looking to try and get more technical people involved, as I think a
strong technical voice saying "We think this is a really bad idea", as
well as hopefully more technical people involved with CVV.

Everyone knows this already. Commissioners, and elections officials.
Boulder County MUST buy a system because our old system has been made illegal; verboten; we can't use it. End of story.
It has to be replaced and every precinct polling place MUST have at least one DRE device.
(if we had a threaded mail archive you would have been able to read the background on this).

This is not a technical issue, it is a political issue. Being forced to purchase things that will not work and are suspect to fraud is a political issue.
But that is what is happening. We are being forced.
Making people understand that it is bad doesn't change it. You need to go and convince the congress, in the next 30 days.


I'm taking
the position flyer as it stands on the website right now and the updated
meeting flyer I got from Laura(thanks Laura!) to the Boulder Linux User
Group meeting tonight.  I'm also hoping to do the same thing at the
Rocky Mountain Internet User Group if and when it's rescheduled (it was
supposed to be last Tuesday, but was canceled because the strong winds
had knocked out windows at the meeting place).  I also want to try and
post a quick something to the main RMIUG list, the BLUG list, and any
other boulder specific technical lists I can find, provided I can figure
out a way to word it that doesn't get me in trouble for being off topic.

However, I'm looking to appeal to these groups from a more technical
perspective, of "listen, these systems are really not ready for
primetime, here's all the technical things that are wrong with them",
but I need to find more info about Avante, Hart, and Sequoia.  If anyone
has any technical details and/or horror stories for these systems, or
can point me in the right direction, that would be awesome.  I'm digging
through
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/blackboxvotingcgi/view_library.cgi?table=library right now, but haven't found much yet.

Thanks in advance,

Scotty

That's all fine and good and you can motivate more people to get involved, but the issue right now is to find a solution (combination of things) that will work reasonably well until the mess can be fixed.
We need to think positively and find something workable in the interem.

In other words, you can complain about your POS car until you are blue in the face, or go and get a bicycle until you can get a nice new car.

paul tiger