Re: CO lab Ciber disqualified

[Lou Puls <lpuls@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the article - I heard this mentioned on Democracy NOW! yesterday.

I'm still wondering if the secret report by Ciber[Cyber?] Inc., cited a year ago in CO testimony, has ever been declassified under the new SoS?

Under our crooked underfunded system, the vendors can demand the reports they pay for be kept secret.


-----Original Message-----
>From: Margit Johansson <margitjo@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Jan 4, 2007 5:12 PM
>To: attendees <attendees@xxxxxxx>, cvv-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: CO lab Ciber disqualified
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/04/washington/04voting.html
>
>The New York Times
>January 4, 2007
>
>U.S. Bars Lab From Testing Electronic Voting
>By CHRISTOPHER DREW
>
>A laboratory that has tested most of the nation's electronic voting
>systems has been temporarily barred from approving new machines after
>federal officials found that it was not following its quality-control
>procedures and could not document that it was conducting all the
>required tests.
>
>The company, Ciber Inc. of Greenwood Village, Colo., has also come
>under fire from analysts hired by New York State over its plans to
>test new voting machines for the state. New York could eventually
>spend $200 million to replace its aging lever devices.
>