First Baptist Church of Austin
'Election Fraud Is a Serious Crime …'
RECEIVED Tue., June 10, 2008
Dear Chron,
Re: “AG and Dems Settle … Then Fuss” [News, June 6]. Thanks to Lee Nichols for covering this story.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is correct to say, “Election fraud is a serious crime that undermines our democratic system of government.” However, he is grossly misguided to target the voters as criminals. It is not the voters but the electronic voting systems that are suspect, because our votes are counted in secret instead of publicly by the citizens.
Our votes are cast and counted using secret proprietary software in electronic voting machines.
“Naked City” [News] May 2 briefly reported about a recently released 45-page qui tam federal fraud lawsuit alleging serious security flaws in Hart InterCivic’s e-voting systems.
Whistle-blower William Singer was a computer specialist for Hart, a former esteemed employee. He alleges that Hart knowingly misled the federal government by falsifying information about the accuracy and security of its voting systems.
In 2004, Mr. Singer wrote the Texas secretary of state to alert him of Hart’s misconduct. Yet today, Travis County voters are still forced to use these risky voting systems.
If Abbott is serious about “election fraud,” he should issue a recall and refund counties for all the e-voting systems used in the state, as one would do with any faulty product.
The simplest and most accurate voting system is paper ballots, hand counted in full public view at the precinct level.
Readers can learn more about this underreported issue on the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary Hacking Democracy and through numerous publications including Hacked! High Tech Election Theft in America – 11 Experts Expose the Truth co-edited by local election integrity activists. Tune in to Vote Rescue radio on Friday nights from 6 to 8pm on 90.1FM and on the We the People Radio Network on the Web.
Chronicle readers would really benefit from a regular feature about this issue.
Re: “AG and Dems Settle … Then Fuss” [News, June 6]. Thanks to Lee Nichols for covering this story.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is correct to say, “Election fraud is a serious crime that undermines our democratic system of government.” However, he is grossly misguided to target the voters as criminals. It is not the voters but the electronic voting systems that are suspect, because our votes are counted in secret instead of publicly by the citizens.
Our votes are cast and counted using secret proprietary software in electronic voting machines.
“Naked City” [News] May 2 briefly reported about a recently released 45-page qui tam federal fraud lawsuit alleging serious security flaws in Hart InterCivic’s e-voting systems.
Whistle-blower William Singer was a computer specialist for Hart, a former esteemed employee. He alleges that Hart knowingly misled the federal government by falsifying information about the accuracy and security of its voting systems.
In 2004, Mr. Singer wrote the Texas secretary of state to alert him of Hart’s misconduct. Yet today, Travis County voters are still forced to use these risky voting systems.
If Abbott is serious about “election fraud,” he should issue a recall and refund counties for all the e-voting systems used in the state, as one would do with any faulty product.
The simplest and most accurate voting system is paper ballots, hand counted in full public view at the precinct level.
Readers can learn more about this underreported issue on the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary Hacking Democracy and through numerous publications including Hacked! High Tech Election Theft in America – 11 Experts Expose the Truth co-edited by local election integrity activists. Tune in to Vote Rescue radio on Friday nights from 6 to 8pm on 90.1FM and on the We the People Radio Network on the Web.
Chronicle readers would really benefit from a regular feature about this issue.
Jenny Clark,
Vote Rescue member
Vote Rescue member
