Alpine, Butte, El Dorado, Fresno, Humboldt, Kern, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Placer, Plumas, San Diego, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, Sierra, Siskiyou, Santa Barbara, Trinity
Dear_____________,
In
California and elsewhere citizens are asking election officials to
take a public position against the use of Diebold (which owns the
renamed Premier Election Solutions) electronic voting systems in the
2008 general election. Election officials who are motivated to
protect elections, and not special interests, want to ban Diebold. In
California and the rest of the country the problems have been
significant :
- In 2004, Diebold was forced to admit it had
programmed the election systems in Alameda County with uncertified
software, a violation of the law.
-
Diebold election systems have been decertified on two occasions, most
recently after Secretary of State Bowen's review of the systems
revealed a lack of security so egregious that one scientist said it
could not be fixed without a complete redesign.
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Citizens are demanding that their elected officials hold
Diebold accountable for the millions of
dollars of equipment now
gathering dust in warehouses throughout the state.
Secretary
of State Bowen is working to make our elections as secure as she can
given the unreliable, insecure equipment the counties have purchased.
Where do you stand in supporting her?