Trusted Logic Voting (TLV)

The following statement has been submitted to NIST regarding proceedings at the April 20th and April 21st meetings.

http://vote.nist.gov/ecposstatements/Milunichcomment.doc

These occurances have indeed tainted the whole TGDC process and permeated not just these specific resolutions, but also the work and reports of the NIST researchers as well. Essentially the argument made by vendor representatives was that changes could not be made to fielded systems in time for 2006 election deadlines. Clearly this is tenous at best - and definately designed to prevent decisions that were adverse to vendors interests. These even extended to vendors representatives cellphoning their technical team leads from the back of the room to get instant verification, and then relaying these words to TGDC executive members.

Now these results are being presented to the EAC and that process too must now also be brought into question as an open representation of best practices. Rather it seems more akin to recommending restrictive practices intended to consolidate the position of existing vendors.
http://vote.nist.gov/Hratch%20EAC%20Briefing%20Boston1.pdf