Ion Sancho issues statement supporting HR 550

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

By Ion Sancho, Supervisor of Elections, Leon County Florida
April 08, 2006

The HR 550 Lobby Days brought to DC not only passionate citizens interested in e-voting reform but also election officials who have been forced into technology battles that they never wanted to fight. Participating in the Lobby Days events today is Ion Sancho, Supervisor of Elections of Leon County Florida. Sancho, as those who follow e-voting issues may recall, organized a series of tests of Diebold's touchscreen voting technology that (once again) exposed a series of serious vulnerabilities.


Sancho issued the follow statement in conjunction with a press conference that took place this morning:

"The independent authority of election officials to provide honest and impartial elections conducted in a fair and efficient manner is under attack today. Partisan politicians in conjunction with some voting machine vendors are taking away the right of American citizens to cast their votes and have them verified as accurate. Congressman Holt's bill is how we must begin to protect our votes and end the erosion of public trust in our elections."

http://votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1167&Itemid=26

[Judi Lynn]

1. If this man finally shakes something lose in the right-wing control

of the country's voting systems, it will be one fine day for celebration. He's tremendously brave to make this stand with all these criminals breathing down his neck.

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Full speed, and good luck to Ion Sancho.

[greekspeak]

2. And again, I get to say...he is my county's election supervisor and

I also get to say what a great man he is. And how I have met him personally and found him to be a true mensch. And I get to say how I wish he would run for something higher someday.