Iowa SoS to Issue Voting SOS
by Jerry Depew, Laurens, Iowa
Iowa Voters for Open and Transparent Elections
Secretary
of State Chet Culver is about to issue an SOS (Save our Security) for
Iowa’s voting machines. “Emergency” rules are to be published in early
May—in time to plug security holes in the new equipment that will debut
for the June primary election. Iowans for Voting Integrity obtained a
copy of the rules last week.
The
action is a tacit admission that Bev Harris and the other “conspiracy
theorists” have been correct these last three years when they said
computerized equipment offered new ways to steal elections.
The
emergency rules govern the memory cards that carry the key programming
and voting results. These cards are so small that any magician could
hide several up his sleeve and swap them when no one is looking. An
altered card could mean a stolen election. It already happened in a
vivid demonstration in Florida last December, now known as the Hursti hack.
At first
Iowa’s election director Sandy Steinbach shrugged off the Hursti caper,
saying he had inside access to the equipment. Actually he had access
similar to that of any poll worker, technician or courthouse employee.
And since it is, after all, insiders who steal elections, Hursti
revealed how it can be done in the future. He pulled the perfect crime,
leaving not a trace of his activity.
Read the complete article here.
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It's very good that Culver has begun to take this measure but it's so little so late…. What I want to know is why didn't our SOS require verifiable paper trails as a requirement uner HAVA? When he toured the state last year around HAVA, progressives overwhelmingly expressed their concerns and desire for a verifiable paper trail. This is agregious! In addition, he refused to “grandfather in” the perfectly good voting systems we had here in Scott County so we sold them to Wisconsin who figured out how to use them while accomodating the new HAVA guidelines! We could have done that… We now no longer have a paper ballot in Scott County! Do I trust my vote will be counted?… Unfortunately, NOT!
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