Comment Re:Support AB 852 (Score 1) 128
Thanks for the feedback. I'll be working your comments into amendments before the bill is taken up in January.
I think we will definitely require compiler source per your first suggestion.
As for your second suggestion, the county will select a machine to make available to the public for inspection. The vendor will never know which machine the public will be able to inspect in any given county. Additionally, the county will be responsible, in concert with the Secretary of State, for ensuring that the certified versions of all hardware and software are in the machine and not other code. There will be no perfect implementation of electronic voting systems just like there is no perfect implementation of conventional/traditional voting systems. I appreciate the sentiment, but it's not so bad as you make it seem. Wouldn't you like to have the legal right to play with your county's chosen voting system?
As for suggestion three, there is no such statutory definition for any "validating information" of any kind in a public election. That is why it was amended out of the bill. There will be a federal requirement coming into effect next year that will satisfy this requirement and we will be paying attention to the process of election validation in coming months. Stay tuned on that score.
I think we will definitely require compiler source per your first suggestion.
As for your second suggestion, the county will select a machine to make available to the public for inspection. The vendor will never know which machine the public will be able to inspect in any given county. Additionally, the county will be responsible, in concert with the Secretary of State, for ensuring that the certified versions of all hardware and software are in the machine and not other code. There will be no perfect implementation of electronic voting systems just like there is no perfect implementation of conventional/traditional voting systems. I appreciate the sentiment, but it's not so bad as you make it seem. Wouldn't you like to have the legal right to play with your county's chosen voting system?
As for suggestion three, there is no such statutory definition for any "validating information" of any kind in a public election. That is why it was amended out of the bill. There will be a federal requirement coming into effect next year that will satisfy this requirement and we will be paying attention to the process of election validation in coming months. Stay tuned on that score.
