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| Open Letter to the Election Assistance Commission |
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| By VoteTrustUSA | |
| December 30, 2005 | |
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The following letter was sent to the Election Assistance Commission and
Brian Hancock, ITA Secretariat
on January 5, 2006. To add your organization to the list of additional signers write to . Individuals are encouraged to send this letter as an email to the Election Assistance Commission by visiting the Email Action Page. Commissioners, Election Assistance Commission and Brian Hancock, ITA Secretariat United States Election Assistance Commission 1225 New York Avenue N.W. Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20005 We the undersigned request that the Federal Independent Testing Authority (ITA) who inspected, for federal qualification, the software used on Diebold Optical Scan and Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines be ordered to reinspect all source code, including any code used on memory cards, looking in particular for 'interpreted' code. 'Interpreted' code is expressly banned for use on any voting systems as per the 2002 Federal Election Commission Voting System Standards Volume 1; Section 4, Paragraph 4.2.2, yet Diebold Elections Systems Inc. has admitted, in California, that they use 'interpreted' code in their AccuBasic software and it may be used elsewhere in their code. This revelation from Diebold representatives and from documents obtained through "Freedom Of Information Act" requests from various sources point to a failure on the part of the ITA to use due diligence in their inspection of Diebold source code and software. It is because of this failure on the part of the ITA and Diebold's revelations that we ask that all Diebold software/source code be reinspected by the ITA. The ITA should then report publicly whether the software/source code includes any 'interpreted' code and if that is the case, as Diebold has admitted, the EAC must direct that all Diebold software be decertified until such time as they can show that they have removed all such prohibited software. This action must not stop with the Diebold products alone, as there is ample evidence that other voting systems also contain 'interpreted' code. It must be made clear that the Voting System Standards were written by experts in the field of computer sciences and elections. The ITA has been tasked with ensuring that the voting machine vendors follow those standards or be denied federal qualification. We demand that the rules be followed by everyone. Original Signers VoteTrustUSA Arizona Citizens for Fair Elections Broward Verified Voting (Florida) California Election Protection Network CASE Ohio Citizens for Election Integrity (Minnesota) Coalition for Peace Action (New Jersey) Coloradoans for Voting Integrity Count the Vote (Georgia) (New Jersey) Florida Fair Elections Coaliton Gathering to Save Our Democracy (Tennesee) GuvWurld (California) Illinois Ballot Integrity Project Illinois Ballot Integrity Project - DuPage Chapter Las Vegas, NM Peace & Justice Center Mercer County Citizens for Better Elections (Pennsylvania) Missourians for Honest Elections - Kansas City Missourians for Honest Elections - St. Louis New Yorkers for Verified Voting North Carolina Coalition for Verifiable Voting Oregon Voter Rights Coalition Palm Beach Coalition for Election Reform (Florida) PA-VerifiedVoting.org Scott for Congress Campaign (Illinois-6th) TrueVoteMD United Voters of New Mexico Verified Voting New Mexico VelvetRevolution.us Virginia Verified Voting VotePA VoterAction (New Mexico) VoteRescue (Texas) VotersUnite WheresThe Paper.org Zeese for U.S. Senate (Maryland) Additonal Signers Coalition for Voting Integrity (Pennsylvania) [] Comment on This Article
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