Ohio: Do you want a clean election this November?

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All of the voting systems used in Ohio have "critical security failures."

That's the conclusion of Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner's EVEREST study (Evaluation & Validation of Election-Related Equipment, Standards & Testing).

The Battelle-managed study used testing done by the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University, the University of California at Santa Barbara, Systest Labs of Denver and MicroSolved, Inc. of Columbus, Ohio.

The results are in, and all the testing firms agree:


Ohio's voting systems are vulnerable.

Testers looking at the performance of Ohio's voting machines identified numerous risks to election integrity ranging from minor to severe. Among their findings: a magnet and a Personal Digital Assistant (i.e. a Treo) may be all that is needed to hack into Ohio's voting systems.

Ohio wants secure and accessible voting systems.


The good news is we now have a Secretary of State and a Governor committed to making Ohio's elections secure and accessible, and the will of the people of Ohio is with them.

There is a lot of detail work ahead, as decisionmakers in Ohio develop solutions to the problems documented by the EVEREST study.

But today we need the Progress Ohio community to stand together with a strong, simple message:

Ohio MUST have secure and accessible voting systems in place by November, 2008.

Sign a message of support for secure and accessible voting systems. Urge decisionmakers to move forward with restoring integrity to Ohio's elections. http://progressohio.org/page/s/everest