SysTest Labs under Fire For Shoddy Methods & Collusion with Vendors by Rady Ananda

by Erik Larson | August 16, 2008 at 09:11 am
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SysTest Labs under Fire For Shoddy Methods & Collusion with Vendors by Rady Ananda

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SysTest Labs, LLC, one of two federal testing labs responsible for certifying our nation's voting systems, is under investigation for failing to document or validate its test methods.  The lab is also accused of using unqualified personnel to run these highly technical tests.  Emails from the lab indicate possible collusion with another voting system vendor, ES&S, whereby SysTest's "test approach takes into consideration" actions that will "ensure certification" of the M650 and M100 optical scanners being tested for Ohio.  
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hotelcal

There is a certain unnamed political party that whines whenever they are not aloud to cheat.  Chads anyone?

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Erik Larson

Both the Dems and the Reps are guilty of manipulation elections about as long as they've been in existence, but the Republicans are over the top. However, given that the Dems are pretending that there's nothing wrong with an unaccountable and opaque electoral process, they're just as complicit in the electoral fraud of 2000, 2002 and 2004. There were "anomalies" in 2006, too, such as Bob Bowman's race against Tom Feeney in FL, and Clint Curtis' loss, also in FL. Curtis and his supporters actually went and gathered affidavits from voters stating how they voted; the results matched with the pre-election polling, but Conyers wanted nothing to do with investigating it. Neither party puts into practice what they claim to stand for, they're both beholden to big money corporate interests. Debates have turned into hyperbole about flag lapel pins, real issues are ignored, and the candidates who want to address them are shut out of the debates. Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich were frequently among the most popular in online polls and among people that get news online, but they got marginalized as kooks by the corpse media, which most people still use.

I'm betting that the People will do the right thing, once enough of us wise up to the way the system works, and as soon as truly viable alternatives and options are discovered.


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crazyvoter

So how do you qualify as a voting  machine tester?

Do you think a members of the public should be allowed to sit with NIST and the EAC during thier observations of testing. A call to Avi Ruben, David Dill, just to name a few that should be able to "observe" thier testing to make sure its done right.

Bradblog.com is right... Paper ballots all the way.

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Erik Larson

"Bradblog.com is right... Paper ballots all the way."

Hear, hear. Not that corrupt and conflicted private corporations and their owners can be trusted to guard the public interest, but even if they could be trusted, the appearance of conflict and possibility for corruption is still there. What do they have against a secure electoral process that all can be confident accurately reflects the will of the people?

Paper ballots- with a secure, publicly accountable chain of custody, hand-counting on election night in the local precinct, with results immediately posted publicly at the precinct and online- and exit polls to back it up.

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