Iowa At “High Risk,” Says Common Cause
Iowa and 16 other states are at “high risk” of having a compromised election due to their use of paperless voting machines that cannot be audited, according to a report last week by Common Cause. I believe I’ve said the same thing myself!
None of Iowa’s neighbors made the high risk category. Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois were rated low risk, while Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota were called medium risk. Congratulations, Iowa!
Detailing what they call “the current voting machine debacle”, Common Cause lists the problems of the new systems and relates stories of their failures from Texas, Virginia, Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
Their recommendation? Get the votes put on paper! They call for federal laws, state laws, more money, retrofitting, decertification–whatever it takes to get voter-verified paper ballots into the system again for everyone. And then conduct public audits of the paper, if the ballots were counted by computerized machinery.
So Common Cause and the League of Women Voters have both spoken out strongly in the last month for verifiable voting. Earlier the same points were made by the Carter-Baker Commission, the General Accounting Office, the Congressional Research Service, the Association for Computing Machinery. . . . Sheesh. Almost everyone but the people who run elections can see that the voting machines have no clothes.