Can U.S. Elections Be Decidedly Accurate, Cost Far Less, and Run Like Clockwork? YES!

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Can U.S. Elections Be Decidedly Accurate,
Cost Far Less, and Run Like Clockwork?
Swiss Voting System Report Says "Yes!"



Basel, Switzerland – Weeks before U.S. presidential voting, cries of potential fraud and deep concern about honest tabulation of votes ran rampant in both Republican and Democrat camps. Must an election – be it for President of the United States or President of a labor union – be clouded by charges and counter charges, lost votes, inaccuracy, equipment malfunctions, and a widespread lack of confidence in the process?

According to Beat Fehr, CEO of Swiss Voting System, it doesn’t have to be this way. His company’s Swiss Voting System Report offers a complete solution to these issues, and, according to Fehr, can save American governments millions of dollars. "The cost in the U.S., per voter, ranges from $25 to $40," Fehr notes. "Using the practices our report describes, it is very possible to match the Swiss cost of $2 per voter. That could be one-twentieth of the cost. Multiply that by thousands or millions of voters, and it’s easy to see how the savings can be monumental. And if you have results that all parties view with complete confidence, you are achieving the best of all possible outcomes."

Swiss Voting System expended over 1,500 hours of time studying the electoral system of Switzerland, creating a document that provides an overview of best-practice processes and gives detailed instructions on how to implement Swiss concepts, guidelines and standards to the benefit of any election. Cost effectiveness, descriptions of procedures, price calculations and logistics for complete elections are included. In essence, the report takes the wisdom of the Swiss voting system and creates a compact, yet comprehensive and highly utilitarian guide.

Swiss Voting System, a privately held company, is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland and draws on Fehr’s extensive background in voting systems and computer expertise.

http://www.swissvs.org/

Click on "PRESS RELEASE"

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Voting Equipment Manufacturers

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Scytl.com — Encrypted electronic voting and gambling systems.
SAVIOC Voting Systems
Sequoia Voting Systems
Shoup Voting Systems
Sure Vote
Swiss Voting System
TruVote International
UniLect Corporation — Patriot voting system
Vogue Election Systems
VoteHere — A small company that is marketing a cryptographic method for providing a mostly-electronic voter verifiable audit trail.
Votec — Election management and voter registration software and hardware.

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:SldzCdd9qx4J:www.ejfi.org/Voting/Voting-127.htm+%22swiss+voting+system%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=9

Swiss computer specialist Beat Fehr (CEO of Swiss Voting System) wants to export Switzerland’s voting system to the United States to make US elections much more reliable.

To obtain a Swiss Voting System certificate, it is necessary to publish the results from individual polling stations or servers in cases of electronic voting.

http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/swissinfo.html?siteSect=105&sid=5246762

Swiss Voting System is composed of a dynamic, multicultural team of engineers, political scientists, lawyers, international business specialists and programmers.

http://www.swissvs.org/Press%20Release_USA_20041029.htm

Have you sent in your $490 to purchase their Company Sales Brochure?

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3. swiss shifting to internet voting

Voting can be done through hand counts, mail-in ballots, visits to polling booths, or, more recently, Internet votes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_Switzerland

E-business moves to elections
ITworld.com, Ebusiness Insights 10/14/04

Last month, the world's first nationwide Internet-based vote took place in Switzerland. Twenty two percent of citizens in Anieres, Cologny, Carouge and Meyrin took advantage of the opportunity, and it went off without a hitch. It took exactly 13 minutes and five seconds to count the ballots. Swiss authorities are looking forward to expanding the program,
and making it a permanent third option for voters, along with postal ballots and
traditional polling stations. ...

The national election followed a string of successful local online votes.

Like in America, Switzerland suffers from dwindling voter turnout;
authorities believe that online voting would get more people to the polls.

The Swiss system uses software developed locally, in conjunction with the Swiss office of Hewlett-Packard, and the Geneva-based security firm, Wisekey. The system is highly secure and uses a method of two-factor authentication. All citizens receive a card from local authorities, giving them their option of voting online, through the post, or in person. The card includes a personal ID code and a four-digit security code. Voters visit a web site and type in their personal code to establish a secure connection, and then they receive an online ballot form. Then, they type in their security code, and date and place of birth. Because that information is compared against a centralized electronic register, the old Chicago trick wouldn't work....
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2409/nls_ebizelections041014/pfindex.html

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5. I suggested a system like this three years ago.

And I was told it would violate voter "privacy" because everyone is given personal codes (which, presumably, could be given to another who could check to see how you voted--i.e., if your vote was "bought"). I'm pretty sure it would be shot down here on the same basis.

(My twist on this was that you would be able to go to your city hall or other government building to check on your vote. You could be given access to a paper receipt of your votes with a coded number on it and you could also access a computerized database to see if it matches your votes. You would have to provide ID to access your codes though, which I realize is a problem for some people. Also, not everyone would have the ability or motivation to go to a government facility to check their votes.)

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4. it has the word "Swiss" in it

it's got to be good!