Fwd: Avante System Disclosure Statement

["Joe Pezzillo" <jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx>]

FYI.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "James Minadeo" <jminadeo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: December 12, 2003 3:22:10 PM MST
> To: "'Joe Pezzillo'" <jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: Avante System Disclosure Statement
> Reply-To: <avante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Joe, 
>
> Sorry I did not respond until now.  I was at the NIST conference and did
> not get this email until now.  
>
> I can not speak officially on this subject without consent from our CEO,
> Dr. Chung.  He was out of the country this week on business.  
>
> I can say that at the very least we have always had the stand that our
> code is open to review.  It always gets tricky saying open to everyone
> since that would make the other vendors come out and try to snow
> non-technical people with a negative review.  At the least we would
> allow inspection of the module that shows the link between the printing
> of the paper and the presentation of the vote to the voter on the touch
> screen to show that everything is above board.  
>
> I will send this request to Kevin but do not expect anything until early
> next week.  
>
> Thanks, 
> James Minadeo - Avante
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Pezzillo [mailto:jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:07 PM
> To: James Minadeo
> Cc: Al Kolwicz; kellen carey; Tom Halicki; Michelle Mulder
> Subject: Avante System Disclosure Statement
>
>
> 12/11/2003
>
> James-
>
> Will you please provide us as soon as possible, hopefully before 
> tomorrow morning's meeting here in Boulder County, an official 
> statement clearly indicating Avante's willingness (and/or the extent of 
> Avante's willingness) to disclose it's system(s) to citizen review?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Joe Pezzillo
> Spokesperson
> Boulder County Citizen's for Verifiable Voting
> http://www.coloradovoter.net