Reply #9: CA SOS Bowen slammed by IRV activist for security measures over San Francisco voting machines

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

IRV more important than secure or accurate elections. That is why San Francisco has to make IRV capability their first priority, not accuracy or security. And that is why SF has to get conditional
approval for their craptastic machines for each election.

S.F. supervisors blamed for blocking new voting system
John Wildermuth, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, September 21, 2007

… The tough restrictions put on the use of the company's voting system in San Francisco are borderline ridiculous given how few people are likely to run into the problems with the ink, said Steven Hill, director of the political reform program of the New America Foundation.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/21/MN8ASA8T4.DTL

With the ES&S Optech Eagle system ballots marked with lighter ink can be mis-read by the scanner. Mr. Hill should consider that people who want to cause problems with other voters' ballots can and will switch the pens on purpose, even leaving behind pens that look exactly like the "official" Eagle compatible pens? Should we assume that Mr. Hill is as unaware and foolish as the voters he laughs off, or is he purposely trying to disguise the real and relevant bad marker security threat that comes from cutting corners by using obsolete optical scanner heads?