Stephen Spoonamore a renowned cyber security expert and life long Republican states unambiguously that electronic voting machines cannot be made secure. He provides a stunning indictment of the electronic voting machine industry in a video interview on velvetrevolution.us. We think we are living in a democracy. Not so if citizens are not informed about and mobilized to demand vote counting accountability. Our democracy is in jeopardy until we ban all touchscreen voting machines and require rigorous audits of optical scan vote tallies against a hand count of the paper ballots. We need emergency legislation that mandates voting machine accountability nationwide. Paper ballots must be used for the presidential race in states that use paperless direct recording electronic (DRE's). We also need legislation that requires a reckoning of electronic vote totals with paper audit trails in the states that have audit trails before the election results are certified. To avoid mayhem and contested recounts in a close presidential election in November we need legislation in place that requires random surprise audits of the paper audit trail compared to the machine totals.
Teresa Blakely