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Election Integrity Events

By zappini
Tue Apr 18, 2006 at 06:34:01 AM PST
Section: Washington State Topic: Building the base

Real quick, here are some upcoming election integrity events. There's stuff tonight, Thurs 4/20, and Tues 4/25. All worthwhile.

(More below the fold.)

Tonight, Tues April 18th

King County Council Members will talk about the future of Elections.

Renton Carpenters Hall 231 Burnett Ave N. Renton WA 98055 at 7:00pm.

Courtney Caswell, the Training, Education and Outreach Coordinator for the DAVE Project -- the euphemism for the notorious failure prone and hackable Diebold AccuVote TSx touch screen voting machines purchased for use by the disabled -- will be there to rationalize this move.

Thursday April 20th

"Vote Counting and Recounting"
U.S. Elections Assistance Commission
April 20, 2006, 10:00 a.m. - Noon
Seattle Hilton Hotel
1301 6th Avenue & University Street
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 624-0500
http://www.eac.gov/

From the agenda: The topic will be "Vote Counting and Recounting". EAC will hear from election
officials and election researchers on experiences with recounting and procedures for
counting votes.

Directions to Seattle Hilton
public hearing announcement

Tuesday April 25th

Fixing Elections

Panel discussion on election integrity. Featuring Holly Jacobson co-founder of Voter Action, Paul Lehto plantiff against Snohomish County and Sequoia Voting Systems, Rep. Toby Nixon, and Richard Borkowski computer expert and activist. Plus music from Threat of Beauty and Industrial Revelation. And food.

At the U of W HUB Auditorium at 6:30pm.

More information at Fair Elections and Seattle Thunder.

Tuesday April 25th

Hearing on Proposed Rules
Elections Division
April 25, 2006, 1:30p.m.
520 Union Ave SE
Olympia, WA 98506

Voting Systems
Statewide Voter Registration Database - 2nd Set
Initiative and Referenda Petitions and Depositing Ballots

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Zappini's guidance sought

The hearing you list is something I might be able to go to. In terms of time prioritizing, how important is it? What are the major issues at stake? I've gone to the PDF document and read some and scanned it all -- but I don't have the context to know whether there is some aspect of what is being considered that is of particular importance to have citizen input on.

These are all central issues:

Various sections of 434 WAC (Washington's Administrative Code) are being updated to set the details on how we will replacing punch cards in WA -- and how we will implement the voter-verified paper trail audits that state law now requires when digital recording devices are utilized. Here's what the document lists as the topics of the day:

Manually counting ballots of selected precincts

Voter verified paper audit trail printers

Voters leaving the polling place without voting

Storing ballot images

Resolving ballots tabulated on digital scan devices

Voting system requirements

Modifying voting and vote tabulating systems

But are they getting it "wrong" on some central issue here? And is this a critical hearing for citizen input -- or one of many?

Thanks for any elucidation.

by noemie maxwell on Tue Apr 18, 2006 at 08:36:05 AM PST

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