Voting machine test lab merger despite EAC ban on Ciber puts Wyle lab partnership in question

[kster]

January 18, 2007 at 12:44:50

by Michael Richardson

The efforts of the Election Assistance Commission to accredit test laboratories for the nation's electronic voting machines have left the country with only two labs, SysTest and Wyle, operating on interim approval; and one laboratory, Ciber, left unaccredited since the National Association of State Election Directors got out of the certification business last year.

Published reports indicate the Ciber was denied interim accreditation last summer for a history of inadequate quality assurance and inability to document that critical tests were performed. The EAC is saying little about the matter to the media and has now been requested by Senator Diane Feinstein to explain why Ciber was not accredited and why disclosure of that fact was kept from election officials around the nation.

EAC regulatory staff might just want to peek at Ciber's website where they will discover that the banned Ciber lab has merged its testing division with EAC approved Wyle lab. Ciber boasts, "The CIBER-Wyle team is your single source for independent voting machine testing."

"With the growing demand for premier independent software/hardware testing of Voting Machines, CIBER and Wyle have joined forces are now offering the quality independent testing solutions needed for voting machine systems supporting the Election Assistance Commission standards."



http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070118_voting_machine

[Wilms]

1. I wonder how the EAC will respond...if at all.

Are they just going to let Ciber operate as usual with new stationary?


Hey, EAC.



:rofl:

[Peace Patriot]

2. You want to know why we have a tyrant in the White House, and why a

supposedly Democratic Congress can't stop him from killing more people in an oil war that 70% of the American people oppose?

You need look no further than this: SECRET "testing" of the trade SECRET, proprietary programming code in all the new voting machines, conducted by PRIVATE for-profit corporations (and, boy, are they for those profits), overseen by a bunch of Bush Junta cronies and appointees, who keep it SECRET that one of the "testing" companies failed their SECRET tests.

What's wrong with this picture?

[sam sarrha]

3. Fascism breeds, flourishes when there is a lot of Fudge Factor with elections

[kster]

4. Keep spreading the truth

this is spot on :thumbsup: