GD Thread: The Carter-Baker Comm [Conflict of Interest, Excellent approach

[tommcintyre]

<This may be the "Achilles heel" of this faux election reform commission. WE need to be looking for ANY vulnerabilities to either change it or discredit it before the next hearing in June.>

The Carter-Baker Commission On Elections Has Compromised Itself
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3499443

CounterPunch
April 18, 2005

The Carter-Baker Commission on Elections
Corporate Conflicts of Interest and Bi-Partisan Myopia
By LINDA SCHADE and KEVIN ZEESE

Sadly, the Carter-Baker Commission has compromised itself at the outset by including a figure with an embarrassing corporate conflict of interest on the key question of vote counts. Ralph Munro is the Chairman of VoteHere, a company with millions invested in the 'vote verification' market. VoteHere is literally banking on the successful marketing of their cryptographic product as the verification method in spite of the fact that voter-verified paper ballots are the solution most recommended by independent computer security experts. Munro should recuse himself to save the Commission from further awkwardness. And, Commission Co-Chair James Baker is invested of the Carlyle Group which owns another voting machine company. The Commission should avoid such improprieties.
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BTW: For anyone that did NOT see the hearing today: They pushed vote encryption like crazy.

[LatePeriduct]

1. big kick

Real good telltale article.

[satya]

2. Kick. n/t