CA SoS Debra Bowen’s public hearing concerning her “Top-to-Bottom Review” of electronic voting systems carried out by the University of California, takes place at 10am today (Monday) in Sacramento. Her office has just let us know that the hearing will be webcast live here.
VelvetRevolution.us’ Emily Levy will be at the hearings and is hoping to live blog them for The BRAD BLOG from the hearing room.
According to a statement from Bowen’s office this morning, the hearing will be at “the Secretary of State’s Sacramento building auditorium at 1500 11th Street.”
“Secretary Bowen’s decisions on system certifications will come on or before August 3, after her thorough review of the UC team reports and input from voters, voting system vendors and local elections officials,” the state says. “Today, the independent UC review teams, led by nationally respected computer science experts David Wagner and Matthew Bishop, will provide an overview of their reports. Voting system vendors will have an opportunity to respond, then public comment will be welcome.”
The landmark, independent reports from UC are available online right here.
UPDATE 1:00pm PT: The live webstream out of the hearing is almost completely unwatchable, as they must not have enough bandwidth to accommodate those trying to watch. As well, though Emily is at the hearings, there is no Internet access available in the room. So despite all best-laid plans, we’ll have to wait for the her report to be posted here later tonight, and for a video archive of the hearing itself to hopefully be made available later.
UPDATE 11:27pm PT: Emily Levy’s tremendous, detailed coverage of the hearing is now finally posted here…
Will there be a way to watch the hearing later? I’ve already missed it, but couldn’t have watched it live anyway.
Thanks for all you do, Brad!!! It seems like we’re actually getting somewhere.
Is there another internet channel to watch the press conference on?
Trying to listen… bad feed… I’m missing a lot, anyone else? keeps lagging at approx 1.7k to 12k and tops out at transients of 35k on DSL here… either calchannel.com has lousy bandwith, has insufficient bandwith alloted for this… or they might be getting heavy traffic… 🙂
Vendor responses now… Diebold sent some kind of teleoperated drone instead of Diebold rep… drone drones standard Diebold PR: “You don’t
know what you’re talking about.” also “You should have … hey! a panel questions the drone… but only briefly.
Hart up now… sent actual company rep?… rep blah blahs… oh joy… and then rep asks for a standardized threat model to build all systems to… (talk about designing for disaster… and with built-in corporate immunity to boot!) … missing most of it now… oh double joy? Hart rep parades cryptography?… (if so then elections are not only to be non-transparent they’re to be buried in concrete) … missing a lot here… Hart rep now complaining about public nature of review… should have kept this stuff secret?…
OK… A dedicated live blogger I’m not 🙂
I’ll wait for a packaged version for a real review… but what I took away that I can be sure of from the fragments I did get is that while Diebold basically blew off the hearing and is playing to the election officials at the county level… at least Hart acknowledges that there is a problem.
hmmm…. election officials supported by Diebold… could this be involved with the “We’ll ignore the SoS and the law!” routine from one of the officials that Brad reported?
I had same probs trying to pick up the stream from here. Looks like it may be overloaded. Hopefully they’ll place the whole thing online later today. Will update this item if I find out and get a link to that effect.
I, too, had trouble with the stream. Re-buffering… re-buffering… re-buffering… I keep missing a lot of it. I hope it is the load that is messing with the servers, and not some sort of meddling. Well, it’s a recess now…
Black Box Voting has posted their letter to the SoS’s office…
… one part is similar to my comments on the outright deception perpetrated by the vendors but concentrates more on the federal failings that enabled this mess… perhaps rightfully so, as opposed to my emphasis on the lies the vendors told the state directly. I was concentrating on the state angle… 🙂
http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/54320.html?1185821329
The republican owners of the electronic voting machine companies have the full backing of the republican filibuster block in congress.
The republican Wierd Al G led Department of
JusticeJust Us would decide whether or not to prosecute for federal violations of federal election law, and a pardon happy president would be the line backer.For some reason the graphic of Alfred E. Neuman and the quote “What … me worry?” comes to mind.