Wilkey, at the time of his appointment to the EAC in 2005, was the chair of the NASED Voting Standards Board. He was also a co-founder and a past-president of the NASED and chaired its ITA Committee from 1998 until he left for the EAC in 2005. In other words, Lewis and Wilkey were at the NASED and the Election Center together, while they were both responsible for the performance of the machines we vote on.
Donetta Davidson, who is now Wilkey's boss at the EAC (prior to that she was Colorado's Secretary of State during the time that state was failing certification of its electronic voting systems), also served on NASED's Voting Standards Board while Wilkey was the Chair (maybe that's what the game musical chairs was supposed to be about).
In 2004, John Gideon of Voters Unite wrote to the EAC cautioning about the Davidson-Wilkey-Lewis controlled Election Center, warning, AIn accepting funds from the voting machine industry and putting on a program that is strongly sponsored by the same industry, Mr. Lewis and the Election Center are violating their own principles and standards of conduct.@ Lewis sent out a "HEADS UP' notice to his buds, Davidson and Wilkey, warning that the attacks from the "crazies" was about to escalate.
So that means Lewis and Wilkey and Davidson were all involved or in control of NASED during the entire period that HAVA mandated the purchase of these voting machines. In fact they were responsible for the control, selection and oversight of the voting machine test labs.
Responsibility for accrediting these ITAs has now been transferred from NASED to the EAC, where there is a huge scandal unraveling, exposing the incestuous relationships among the federal government, election officials and the voting companies who worked together to create the appearance of a certification process when nothing could be further from the truth (the Brad blog is covering this extensively).
Things were apparently so bad under Doug Lewis’s and presumably Davidson’s and Wilkey’s watchful eyes, that even the EAC was forced to acknowledge with regard to Ciber, the main testing lab selected by R. Doug Lewis’s Election Center, that there are no independent requirements for testing and:
"the testing for a product tends to either use vendor developed tests or new tests developed specifically for the product-they have no standard test methods defined. This makes their testing dependent on vendor input and vulnerable to unique vendor interpretations rather than a core validated set of internal references for training and testing."
(http://www.eac.gov/docs/Ciber%20&%20Wyle%20Assessment%20%28July%202006%29.pdf)
So there it is, the Davidson-Wilkey-Lewis controlled Election Center
(emphasis on the controlled). That’s who testified today. Doug Lewis represents the best of those that have made sure only the most profitable “product” should be seriously considered. The NASED/EAC/Election Center is not interested in optical scanners and they are definitely not interested in permitting people to count their own votes by hand (how would Doug’s other buddies make any money that way?). Besides why would we want to discuss a hand count system for ensuring that votes were actually counted as cast, when we can have the counting go on in secret within the opaque walls of these machines controlled by Doug and his extended group of friends (that would include those with a vested interest to sell the most expensive machines and have no accountability for their shoddiness as well as those who have a vested interested in staying in power).
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