(FL) Elections chief welcomes greater state role

[DoYouEverWonder]

June 19, 2006

As evidenced by the recent tiff between former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris and former Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore over their recollections of the 2000 presidential recount, state officials and county elections chiefs don't always see eye to eye.

But Elections Supervisor Arthur Anderson and many of his colleagues support a proposal by the Florida Division of Elections to give the state a greater role in the testing of county voting equipment.

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Critics say the proposed rule is merely an attempt to squelch the kind of embarrassment that occurred last year when maverick Leon County Elections Supervisor Ion Sancho quietly invited computer scientists to hack into his county's state-certified system. The hackers found that a person with insider access could manipulate vote totals without leaving evidence of tampering, Sancho said.

"At every point along this process, as evidence begins to mount that these systems have problems, the secretary of state has sought to hide that information from the public," Sancho said.

Anderson and other elections chiefs, however, say the state's proposal will lead to more information being shared among counties and will add consistency across Florida's 67 counties.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/pbccentral/content/local_news/epaper/2006/06/19/s1b_elex_0619.html

[merwin]

1. The elections supervisor, Arthur Anderson, is just a coincidence, right?

Not at all related to Enron?

[salin]

2. struck me as well... what a name for the guy to 'certify' that 'counting'

of votes is legit.

[autorank]

3. What a joke. And that guy is a Democrat? What disgrace...

...resign now, you're a tool.

The reason the state wants to control testing is so that they can stop any embarassing information
leaking out about the lousy machines. Carrying on in the tradtion of the worst election official in
history, Teresa Lapore, we give you Arthur Anderson. First, they give us Lapore, then they screw up
the vote, now this stupidity.

[flordehinojos]

4. these bushes how they like to twist and hide the truth and they are doing

it by, as ion sancho CLEARLY AND TRUTHFULLY POINTS OUT, hiding information from the public which points to the bushes hands of their perfected art of stealing our elections through the damned diebold and other electronic machines.

there is a couple of things the bushes cannot hide and those are, (1) the malodorous stench that announces their approach or their departure, (2) the fact that SOOOOOOOO MAAAAAAAANY PEOPLE HATE THEM, (3) the fact that they have money because of their corrupt, dishonest and evil business dealings, (4) the fact that they have political power because their POPPY'S COVERT CIA HANDS, HIS LOVE OF WAR, HIS FASCINATION WITH MUNITIONS, AND HIS RAT LYING SOUL made sure that they snuffed the people's political will, their voices, and their VOTES.