RE: Sequoia Vote Code released

["alkolwicz" <alkolwicz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bob,

Are you planning to distribute the "Trustworthy Elections Resolution" to the
CFVI list?  

It is important that all political parties express their support for paper
ballots.  By passing the resolution at caucuses, it qualifies for
consideration at the county assemblies.  By passing it at county assemblies,
it qualifies for consideration at the State Assemblies.

Getting it passed by the state assemblies will certainly be press-worthy.

A copy is pasted below.

Thanks

Al


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FINAL - Wednesday, March 31, 2004            

Trustworthy Elections Resolution

WHEREAS trustworthy elections are basic to democracy,

WHEREAS trustworthy elections require that each vote is anonymous, secure,
verified by the voter and counted as intended by the voter,

WHEREAS paperless voting machines make it impossible for us to verify that
our votes are correctly recorded, 

WHEREAS paperless voting machines make it impossible to prove that each vote
is correctly counted, 

WHEREAS a receipt printer on a paperless voting machine would not solve
these problems because the votes printed on the receipt can be different
from the votes stored in the machine, and because votes on the receipts
would rarely be counted, 

WHEREAS accurate re-counting requires that the votes on the original paper
ballots be examined and counted, and that the results from a previous count
are not known to the people doing the re-counting, 

WHEREAS failure to conduct trustworthy elections opens the door to
undetectable errors and fraud and destroys voter confidence, 

THEREFORE, we voters want to hand mark or machine mark our votes onto
full-ballot-text paper ballots, to check our votes before we cast them, to
know that the votes on our paper ballot are what get counted, and to have
access to proof that every ballot is accounted for and that every vote is
correctly understood and counted.   

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Subject: Sequoia Vote Code released

I found this posted on the CA-based SAVE-Democracy Yahoo Groups weblog...


From:  Phil Fry <phily@xxxx>
Date:  Sat Apr 3, 2004  2:47 pm
Subject:  [CASE_OH] Sequoia Vote Code released
To:  CASE_OH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


This is probably too much for one email, but I will try:

1. I just found out that the Sequoia voting code is available on the net.  
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/WinEDS200.zip
I started to download it but found it is 45M and I have a dial up so it is 
just not practical. Would someone with high bandwidth please download it and

share it with me. I would love to look at it. I have never been inside 
computer voting code before and I don't even know what language is used.

2. There is a good article on the release of the Sequoia code that many of 
you will find interesting.   
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0404/S00028.htm

3. There is MUST READ story at: 
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0404/S00024.htm
This one gives incredible details about how code was probably manipulated 
during recent California election. Even if it turns out later that there was

no wrong doing, this piece helps make it clear how complicated it is to 
observe tampering and how easy it is for someone who is trained to do it.

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