Deadline Wednesday, 8/1, to end voting machines in California

[kaygore]

This is an email I received from Velvet Revolution. Please contact Debra Bowen today and give her your input: [e-mail]

Last week, the results came in from California’s top-to-bottom “Red Team” review of the four major vote machines used in that state. In short, a crack team of computer scientists and professionals found massive security flaws in all the machines tested from Diebold, Sequoia, Hart, and ES&S. Read the full story here. Debra Bowen, the California Secretary of State now has to make a decision about what to do about all these machines -- does she decertify them, conditionally recertify them if the problems are fixed, or come up with some other solution.

She has asked for public comment through the end of the day today, Wednesday, August 1st. [e-mail]< BR>
Obviously, the machine vendors a extremely opposed to the review results and any action by the SOS, and they are trying hard to lobby against these. So we need to let the Debra Bowen that we have her back when she makes the tough decision shemust, and that decision could come as early as Friday, August 3rd.

So please, send SOS Bowen a little note thanking her for conducting the “Red-Team” review, and tell her what you want her to do with the vote machines that do not meet reasonable security standards. Send a your note before the end of business today. [e-mail]