BREAKING: Texas Passes Bill to Become the 9th State to Leave ERIC - TX House Passes Vote to Pull Out of Controversial Voter Roll...
On Tuesday, the Texas legislature voted to pass HB 1070 and withdrew from Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), the controversial voter roll maintenance system.
I am very concerned that people are not paying more attention to what each state intends to replace ERIC with.
Good point. Why don't the states just run their own database on their own server? Government IT contracts are the essence of corruption.
If they figure out how to do that will they include the proper security measures to make them unhackable?
Odds are better with states running them directly and accountable to the public than with a largely unsupervised contractor.
Personally I wouldn't trust our Sec of State as far as I could throw him. One thing we have learned in the last couple of years is that although we have been utterly dependent on machines, there is virtually no one on the Election Boards that knows a single thing about the technology. Dominion has been taking candy from babies because they could. Until we have decent job descriptions and hiring practices and bonded and insured people running the elections at the local and state level we just create more problems that make us sitting ducks.
You are right about government workers being computer illiterate. This looks like it needs to be dealt with as one package: bring voter data internal AND make sure the right people are hired. Plus fire the idiots. My favorite part.
This is WHY everything needs to go back to paper, not just the ballots but the roll books too. Nothing electronic can truly be secured in this day and age. All of the current hell we are living through now is because the bad guys seized the electronic voting several decades ago.
Hmmm, very good point.
Care to inform us?
Just asking the question..... doing away with ERIC gives them many options, most will end up not being any better and likely even more vulnerable to hacking.
I HOPE you are right! I live in Ohio too. I worked the polls one of the last elections and found everyone completely hoodwinked by the so-called "security measures" in place.
They'll replace it with ETHAN - Election Tinkering Helpline for American Natives.
Texas still uses HART though…. Finicky computers
ROOKIE NUMBERS! Keep going, frens.