{"id":1461,"date":"2009-10-07T17:10:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T01:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/07\/pelosi-adds-voice-to-open-source-voting-systems-momentum\/"},"modified":"2020-12-10T10:21:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T18:21:24","slug":"pelosi-adds-voice-to-open-source-voting-systems-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1461\/pelosi-adds-voice-to-open-source-voting-systems-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Adds Voice to Open Source Voting Systems Momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/open_src_voting_christine_pelosi_091001\/_w2w3452_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" \/><br \/>\nChristine Pelosi discusses open source voting systems<br \/>\nwith Open Voting Consortium founder Alan Dechert<br \/>\nduring a fundraiser last week in San Francisco.<br \/>\n<strong>Photos by Luke Thomas <\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/luke\/\">Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>October 7, 2009<\/p>\n<p>The famous quote, \u201cIt&#8217;s not the people who vote that count. It&#8217;s the people who count the votes,\u201d has been attributed to the infamous soviet-era dictator, Joseph Stalin, a premise Christine Pelosi, daughter of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, agrees with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverywhere I go, no matter what else people have to say, they ultimately ask one question: &#8216;Why should we work our hearts out if the fix is already in?&#8217;\u201d Pelosi said during a keynote speech at a fundraiser last week held to benefit <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180903024710\/http:\/\/openvoting.org\/our_solution\">Open Voting Consortium<\/a> (OVC). \u201cWhen we look at the elections and look at how close everything is, you know that there\u2019s something happening in that machine that we need to know about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> Pelosi was, of course, referring to paperless proprietary electronic voting systems whose inaccessible software renders them unreliable and vulnerable to electoral manipulation. By contrast, an election conducted solely by paper ballot, though desirable, is resource intensive, subject to human error and is time consuming.<\/p>\n<p>OVC founder and CEO Alan Dechert believes <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180903024710\/http:\/\/openvoting.org\/our_solution\">OVC\u2019s solution<\/a>, a non-tabulating open source system that generates an encoded paper ballot using inexpensive off-the-shelf computer components, provides the advantages of automated electronic voting systems without the costs and trust concerns associated with proprietary voting systems.<\/p>\n<p>A former computer programmer for Sacramento County, Dechert said the idea to develop an open source voting system occurred to him when the State of California in 2001 began discussing using proprietary paperless touch screen electronic voting systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was the idea that was floating around in the State legislature at the time, and I, like a lot of computer geeks I talked to, thought that was a crazy idea,&#8221; Dechert recalled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want a paper ballot that\u2019s unambiguous,&#8221; Dechert said during a demonstration of OVC&#8217;s system. The free open source software, which runs from a read-only CD, cycled through a pre-programmed language-selectable menu of ballot choices. Upon ballot selection completion, a paper ballot containing Dechert\u2019s selections in plain text as well as matrix code was printed, code that can be scanned and tabulated by a code reader.<\/p>\n<p>Dechert has been advocating for open source systems since the questionable 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. He said momentum is now building to replace proprietary systems with open source systems. Los Angeles County is OVC&#8217;s most promising prospect and is considering using OVC\u2019s system by 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to the momentum for more reliable and secure voting systems, Secretary of State Debra Bowen in 2007 conducted a top-to-bottom review of several voting systems certified for use in California which resulted in the decertification and conditional re-approval of some Diebold and Sequoia proprietary voting systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs LA ready, willing, and able to lead the way for the State?\u201d Dechert asked. \u201cAs goes LA, so goes the State of California and, probably, the whole country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/open_src_voting_christine_pelosi_091001\/_w2w3467_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"321\" \/><br \/>\nAlan Dechert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christine Pelosi discusses open source voting systems with Open Voting Consortium founder Alan Dechert during a fundraiser last week in San Francisco. 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