[1] EPIC Testifies Before the U.S. Election Assistance Commission ======================================================================== The U.S. Election Assistance Commission held the third and final public hearing Wednesday in Denver, Colo., on the draft Voluntary Voting System Guidelines. The commission is nearing the end of a process began last year, which is intended guide the design of voting systems used in public elections. EPIC and the National Committee for Voting Integrity (NCVI) have worked with civil rights groups, voting rights groups and technologists to increase awareness of the threats to elections posed by unauditable election technology. EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney testified before the commission and urged its members to promote reliable, secure, accessible, transparent, accurate, and auditable public elections. EPIC urged the Commission to stress in the guidance strong support of open government procedures that allow public access to the election administration process. EPIC also urged the Commission to include guidance that addresses the need to minimize and, wherever possible, eliminate the threat to voters' privacy, including that of absentee voters. The Commission was also urged to ban the use of infrared technology in voting systems, or to at least establish safeguards if the technology was used because of the security risks involved. EPIC also recommended that the Commission direct the states to prepare realistic contingency plans in the event of electronic voting system failures that jeopardize the completion of the election process. Post-election analysis of 2000 and 2004, and legal challenges, which followed these presidential elections, have identified many obstacles to reliable public election. These include problems with: voter registration, voter roll purges, poll place practices, accessible polling locations, and voting technology, usability of voting mechanisms, absentee ballot problems, and vote tabulation. Between 4 and 6 million voters were disenfranchised by the public election process in 2000. EPIC's testimony: http://www.epic.org/privacy/voting/eac-8_23.pdf EPIC's Voting page: http://www.epic.org/privacy/voting/ National Committee for Voting Integrity: http://www.votingintegrity.org/ ======================================================================== ______________________________________________________________ O texto acima e' de inteira e exclusiva responsabilidade de seu autor, conforme identificado no campo "remetente", e nao representa necessariamente o ponto de vista do Forum do Voto-E
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