Today the CA Sec. of State, Debra Bowen, announced that she will be decertifying the voting system that lost votes in Humboldt Co. This action is being taken after a state investigation that found that the Diebold/Premier voting system violates the standards because of problems with its audit logs as well as the inaccuracy of one version used in the state.
Humboldt Co has already decided to switch to another vendor and the other two counties are already upgrading their systems so Bowen’s action does nothing at all. The fact that she is ignoring the audit log problems means that she is giving her tacit stamp of approval on the Diebold/Premier systems that have the audit log problem.
I am going to begin posting links to new information that I find on the United States Election Assistance Commission website. I hope this will help keep the reader aware of part of what is going on in Washington DC with regards to our elections.
After this Wednesday evening’s “Daily Voting News†we will be taking a well-deserved hiatus to attend a conference. DVN will resume on Sunday evening.
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John,
Secretary Bowen cited the audit log deficiencies in her withdrawal document (found here: http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting_systems/premier/premier-11819-withdrawal-approval033009.pdf ):
“Whereas, in the course of its investigation, Secretary of State staff identified the
following issues: The presence of “Clear” commands that allow audit trail records to be
permanently deleted; certain event records that contained inaccurate dateltime stamps;
and the failure of the audit logs to record important events, such as intentional deletion of
decks of ballots, all of which appear to violate
Why do you say she is ignoring the audit log problems?
SemperFi
I say that because Diebold admitted that the audit log problem exists on all of their systems. If Bowen used the audit log as one of the reasons for decertifying 1.18.19 then why is it not a reason to decertify the rest of the state’s Diebold systems? Essentially Bowen is ignoring all of the rest and decertifying only the system that would never have been used in the state again anyway. She is taking the easy, political route.