Marcy Kaptur: “So there are no Federal standards. I can tell the gentleman that in Ohio our secretary of state displayed five different…”

“So there are no Federal standards. I can tell the gentleman that in Ohio our secretary of state displayed five different technologies in our State House. I sent down a computer security team from our region in the State from all of our major universities and said, please assess the machines. These were all people involved in computer security. They came back and reported to me that of the five systems under review in Ohio, not a single one they would rate either excellent or very good in terms of both ease of use to the voter and security. That was a devastating finding to me. Even though I voted for HAVA, I went back to the drawing boards and looked at what was going on in my State. My State at this point has received the $41 million to buy machines, to buy technology which is probably not enough money to get an optical scanner and a paper trail, but it has not received the larger amount of money it should have received, $117 million, to do the voter education and all of the work that is necessary to bring up these new systems. So even though we voted for this law, just Ohio is $66 million short in trying to bring these technologies up by next year. I wanted to place this on the Record. Timing is vital.”