RE: Elections Web Form - the idea of bringing Diebold voting machines to Ca should die

[http://www.ss.ca.gov/~Elections]

Thank you for your recent email expressing your comments regarding the possible 
certification of the Diebold system.

Pursuant to Section 19204 of the Ca Election Code, a public hearing was 
held on November 21, 2005 at 10:00 am, at the Secretary of State's Office, 1500 
11th Street, Sacramento, to hear public comment regarding the proposed 
certification of a Diebold voting system for use in Ca.

Secretary of State Bruce McPherson believes that there is no right more 
fundamental and vital than the right to vote. Democracy depends on it. 
He is committed to making certain that only the most reliable, secure, and 
accessible voting systems are sold for use in Ca. He is also committed 
to maintaining voter confidence in the voting systems used in Ca. 

As Secretary of State he is the only official given the responsibility by law 
of approving or rejecting voting systems for use in Ca. 

All voting systems seeking approval will be required to meet current standards 
and procedures and the new more rigorous standards announced in August 2005. 
These standards will be put into regulation in 2006, which includes public 
comment. 

All voting systems seeking approval will do so through a public hearing 
conducted by staff from the Secretary of State's Office. The public hearing 
will be like all other public hearings required for voting system approval and 
will, additionally, permit one week of public comment following the hearing. 
The purpose of the public hearing is to present staff reports regarding the 
voting system application and to take comments from the public that will be 
reviewed before preparing the final recommendations about approval or denial of 
the applications that are submitted to the Secretary of State. 

The public hearings are chaired by the Acting Director of the new Office of 
Voting System Technology Assessment. A member of the legal staff of the 
Secretary of State's Elections Division is present along with the consultant on 
voting systems employed by the Secretary of State. 

Sincerely,
Elections Web Mail Representative

-----Original Message-----
From: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert [http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert]
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 7:16 AM
To: Elections Web Mail
Subject: Elections Web Form - the idea of bringing Diebold voting
machines to Ca should die

Customer's Message *****************************
I oppose the latest effort to bring Diebold voting machines to Ca.  
Please send them back until an independent auditor can truly evaluate the 
reliability of these machines.

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 customer_name --     Robert

 street_address --     .

 city --     where-I-live

 state --     CA

 zip_code --     

 area_code --     510

 telephone_number --     my-Oakland-voicemail-number

 where_did_you_hear --     
 http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Will_Ca_send_Diebold_packing_before_1118.html
 

Customer's Web browser - Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.4) 
Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 StumbleUpon/1.89.
Form was accessed from Web page http://www.ss.ca.gov/.