NYTimes Incorrectly Lays The Blame For A Lack of New Voting System Improvements On Federal

[babsbunny]

Certification Process

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6277

Blogged by John Gideon on 8/17/2008 11:07AM
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NYTimes Incorrectly Lays The Blame For A Lack of New Voting System Improvements On Federal Certification Process

Guest Blogged by John Gideon, VotersUnite.Org

Chicago, South Dakota, Ohio and other states finally acknowledge that their voting machines don't work. But, incredibly, they seem willing to keep using them, and almost never consider holding the vendors responsible for their flawed, under-tested products.

The New York Times has again given a platform to the voting machine vendors to voice their displeasure with a system that is forcing them to actually provide voting systems that are fully tested and certified. The vendors, and some election officials, seem to want to continue the old system of poorly tested and rubber-stamped voting systems counting our votes.

In his article, Ian Urbina, quotes Jennifer Brunner who says:
“We need the federal oversight to create consistent standards and to hold the manufacturers to a certain level of quality, but we also have to be able to get the equipment when we need it. Right now, that equipment is not coming, and we’re left making contingency plans.”

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. Equipment:

Paper. Black felt tip pen. Locked box.

How hard is that?

[riverdeep]

2. We've been doing this story every couple of years since 2004.

By we, I mean the MSM, that's when they finally picked that something was wrong. Come every election time, often on election day, they do stories of how people's votes are missing or wrong, and then the story disappears again until the next election. Follow through is not their strong suit.

[EFerrari]

3. NYTs is willfully obtuse. Hundreds of people - if not more -

asked them to cover Ohio and they just brushed us off. The Public Editor promised the story would be covered should a story appear and here we are four years later with nada.

/oops