Natl Critics of E-Voting Jan 7 to speak to NC E-Voting Committee

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

Joint Select Committee on Electronic Voting Systems:
The Joint Select Committee will study and make recommendations on the fate of electronic voting in North Carolina.
See bottom of page for detail.

NEXT MEETING - January 7, 2005 at 10:00 a.m. Friday.

Speakers: Rebecca Mercuri and Chuck Herrin

Rebecca Mercuri, leading national critic of electronic voting for the past five years.
She is on the faculty at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, long time verified voting advocate will present testimony.
Her website:
(http://www.notablesoftware.com/evote.html/)

Chuck Herrin, professional "white hat hacker" hired by Fortune 500 Companies to test their security.
Will be presenting testimony on security, standards and auditing. 2 more meetings planned after,
January 14th and 21st, with goal of writing legislation for VVPB. Chuck's website:
(http://www.chuckherrin.com/)
There also will be a speaker opposed to voter verified paper ballots.

Meeting Location:

Room 643 of the Legislative Office Bldg
16 West Jones Street, Raleigh N.C. 27603 directions
Committee website: here
(http://www.ncleg.net/help/directions.html)

Listen to the hearings live online, see the Appropriations Committee Room (Rm 643) link:
(http://www.ncleg.net/Audio/Audio.html)

Sign up for email alerts on the Electronic Voting Committee Meetings.
Go to the General Assembly's website, to this page titled "Receive Interim Committee/Commissions Notices", here
(http://tinyurl.com/4wu69)
then click on the "Select Committee/Commission" drop down bar, and choose "Electronic Voting Systems,
Joint Select Committee on" then provide your email adress and submit.


Read our blog on the December 13 and 20th meetings: here and short synopsis below:
(http://nc-voter.blogspot.com/)

SECOND MEETING - 20 December 2004. Topic: county election problems and some voting systems were shown to committee members.
FIRST MEETING - 13 December 2004. Justin Moore's presentation here (need ppt viewer) on the vulnerabilities in electronic voting systems.
(http://tinyurl.com/17a)
Clears up myths of hackability and security.

Purpose of Joint Select Committee on Electronic Voting:
The Committee shall study the issue of whether direct record electronic (DRE) voting systems should be prohibited
in North Carolina unless each unit of the system produces a voter-verifiable paper record that is suitable for a recount
or a manual audit and that is equivalent or superior to the paper record produced by a paper ballot system.

In conducting the study, the Committee shall consider DRE voting systems, compliance with the Help America Vote Act of 2002
(HAVA) and with voting-systems standards to be adopted under HAVA, including providing sufficient opportunity for access and participation, and privacy and independence, to all voters regardless of disability.
The Committee shall consider any other issue related to the use of electronic voting systems.

Complete information and clickable links here:
http://www.ncvoter.net/alerts.html

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[Kelvin Mace]

1. Kick

[Acryliccalico]

2. Kick n/t

[marions ghost]

3. thanks for info

will be following this. Experts in the field need to be advising state legislatures on e-voting. Step in the RIGHT direction.

[BeFree]

4. They are rushing this

The BBV makers want to hurry this along before the new statewide election in March. This new election, costing millions of dollars, is due solely to the fact that a DRE lost over 4,000 votes skewing the statewide totals.

Thanks for posting this info. As far as I know, this study is the first of it's kind and will lead the way for other states and even the congress.

Tell ya what we need to do... we need to storm the castles as these meetings take place.