Iowa Voters

California’s Senator Dianne Feinstein has begun inquiring about the so-called independent lab that has tested all of Iowa’s high tech voting machines. Thus has the concern of voters (driven by computer scientists, activists, and bloggers) reached at last to the top of the Washington scene.

In a letter to the Election Assistance Commission, Feinstein asked

why the Commission failed to notify election officials or the public about a serious problem with Ciber Labs of Colorado, one of three major labs that tests much of the nation’s software used in voting equipment.

Senator Feinstein also asked for information regarding what went wrong at Ciber Labs to warrant its loss of accreditation.

You can read the Senator’s entire letter here. It’s a virtual FIOA demand from the Senate Rules Committee to the EAC.

Meanwhile another prominent Senator has taken up another favorite topic of IowaVoters: the public financing of election campaigns. Dick Durbin of Illinois will propose federal legislation for clean elections similar to those now held in Maine and Arizona for state offices.

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