RE: Brennan Center & LCCR Recommendations for Touch-Screen Voting Machines

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Subject: RE: Brennan Center & LCCR Recommendations for Touch-Screen Voting Machines

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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 21:40:43 -0600

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opening remarks bemoan, "...voters in almost 576 counties in 27 states will still be using outdated systems like punch cards, lever machines and hand-counted paper ballots ..."

If LCCR continues to believe paper ballots are the problem, then I seriously doubt the sincerity of their interest in credible elections.

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From: Faith Gross [mailto:fgross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 5:39 PM
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Subject: FW: Brennan Center & LCCR Recommendations for Touch-Screen Voting Machines
Importance: High

The recommendations below have received support from most of the biggest anti-touch screen voting Machines/VVPT proponents (e.g., Avi Rubin, David Dill.) You may want to pass this along to your election officials.

Christina Galindo-Walsh
NAPAS (National Association of
Protection and Advocacy Systems)
900 Second Street, NE, Suite 211
Washington, D.C. 20002
Telephone: 202/408-9514, Ext. 110
Facsimile: 202/408-9520
TTY: 202/408-9521

Today, the Brennan Center for Justice and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights released a set of recommendations for the use of touch-screen voting equipment in the 2004 election. The report, among other things, urges election officials to contract with independent computer security experts to analyze the voting systems in use and to follow through with a number of steps to implement a security plan. The recommendations have garnered the strong support of many of the leading experts in computer science and security, as well as the support of EAC Chairman DeForest Soaries..

We announced the release of the report at a press conference this morning. The speakers were:

Wade Henderson, LCCR (moderator)

Deborah Goldberg, Brennan Center

Avi Rubin, Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Michael Wertheimer, RABA Technologies

Lee Page, Paralyzed Veterans of America

Eric Lazarus, DecisionSmith Consulting

Lillie Coney, Electronic Privacy Information Center & National Committee on Voting Integrity

Wade’s opening remarks can be found at: http://www.civilrights.org/issues/voting/details.cfm?id=23786

A press release can be found at: http://www.civilrights.org/issues/voting/details.cfm?id=23781. This page also contains links to:

· the report itself (including an RFP kit),

· a letter with sign-ons, to be sent to chief election officials in each state, and

· a collection of endorsements from experts and advocates in the computer science

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