Congratulations Carole Simmons
A Jefferson County voter has written a devastatingly good column in the Des Moines Register today calling on the legislature to pass paper trail legislation. This should ignite a firestorm of auditor anger. Will it ignite the Iowa House of Representatives?
Here is an excerpt:
Billions of federal dollars have been allocated to the states for purchase of electronic-voting systems that are prone to error and vulnerable to fraud. This is not the opinion of some conspiracy theorist, but rather the considered judgment of computer scientists at leading universities — Stanford, Johns Hopkins and our own University of Iowa. They concur that current standards and testing procedures are inadequate to reveal security flaws that could subvert an election.
Read it here.
Thank you, Carole.