FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF STATE - Glenda E. Hood
Secretary of State
Voting Equipment Status Updates from Vendors as of April 6, 2004
The following document highlights the status of verifiable paper ballot machinery. The Department of State, Division of Elections has been in routine contact with both vendors and national independent testing laboratories inquiring about printers and their development but we currently have no applications from any vendors for a voter verifiable paper trail machine. No vendor has any machines that will be available before the 2004 election cycle.
Standards for new technology will surely be developed by the newly appointed Election Assistance Commission and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). When new technology such as companion printer equipment is fully developed, we stand ready to work with vendors through the certification process.
Who owns these bastards?! It sure doesn't seem to be the American People.
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Vendor: Sequoia Pacific
...would not
have such a device ready for certification and testing in Florida in time for the 2004 election cycle.
Vendor: Diebold
...they have a prototype "on the drawing board" but did not
see any sense or need to have it tested because he believes that there are not standards for such
equipment. He said that in time, when standards are set for such devices, they would bring a
product to market.
Vendor: ES&S
...have a working prototype, they will not put it into production until standards are published. He estimates the time from starting to put the device into production to achieving certification would span 8 to 10 months.
Vendor: Wyle Laboratories
...had tested voter verifiable ballot machines from two companies and that the machines worked. He would not identify the companies. When asked if Diebold, Sequoia or ES&S had submitted anything to Wyle, Mr. Dearman said he had not received a voter verifiable ballot machine from any of these companies.
Vendor: Hart Intercivic
Status: ...they do not have anything as far as a voter verifiable paper ballot. He said that should Hart develop such a device, he has no interest in applying for Florida Certification.
Vendor: Avante
Status: ...they do have a device,She said that they do not plan to pursue certification in Florida because it is too expensive. Ms. Toshia Brown on our staff was conducting the interview and told Ms. Chu that it really was not expensive because all vendors have to do is reimburse the State of Florida for our out of pocket expenses...
Vendor: Unilect
Status: ...they do have a prototype in development but have no real interest in bringing it into production unless one of his customers mandates it. He stated that he believes the idea of a voter verifiable paper ballot is a bad idea and he's hoping that cooler heads will prevail and the topic will be dropped.
Vendor: Micro Vote
Status: ...they do not have a voter verifiable paper ballot and they are not interested in applying for Florida Certification at any point in the near future.
The Capitol * Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0250 * (850)245-6500
http://www.dos.state.fl.us
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Admittedly, this letter is 8 months old and I've excluded the couple of vendors who have something on the board. But ya gotta love it, it's the Diebold & ES&S brothers front-running the next votescam technology?!
But goddamit!!!!!!!!!!
-- how freaking long has it been since the 2000 election?!?!
The Repub Rapp-ers are selling Palm Beach County FL Butterfly Ballots as GAGS!! out of Xenia OH's Triad operation!!
Hell, even naturally-allied freepers whined in anticipation of the 2000 scam.
Why?? they'd found an already four-year-old opus using 13000 words to ask whether Pandora's Black Box-trap would pre-empt Bu$h 2's Coup 1.
And nearly a decade later, complicit election whores couldn't be bothered to discover that their qualification expenses would be covered by Americans. ASSHOLES!!
But what the hell, us blue types are STILL unsure we can rope a single senator into contesting a contaminated election with Conyers the god...
Just how difficult can it be to connect a damn printer to a damn voting machine? This's gotta be someone's big joke. Maybe Fellini found he could time-travel back to 1984 by igniting ballots using electrons to reach Fahrenheit 451. Yeah, I guess that's how you get cooler heads prevailing, those orange fires eventually go black as they exhaust the fuel.
The architecture of the New World Order is classicly paper-thin and measured in fractional microns.