[E-voting] Who are ITAA?

[evoting at stusoft.org]

I'm not sure how long the ITAA have been on the go but they show up now
and again as objectors to "consider open-source first" laws and as
defenders of software patents.

ITAA is also the Irish Travel Agents Association but in my experience
they've been a most helpful group of people.

Stuart


Quoting Margaret McGaley <Margaret.McGaley at redbrick.dcu.ie>:

> I've noticed recently that a lot of articles quote from a guy in ITAA
> (Information Technology Association of America) as a "staunch defender of
> e-voting systems". 
> 
> This morning I found an article [1] in BlackBoxVoting.org about a conference
> call between the various e-voting vendors and ITAA about ITAA being hired by
> them to lobby on their behalf. The article links to a kind of scary agenda
> [2]
> for the call.
> 
> The ITAA's website (www.itaa.org) links to the website of "Election
> Technology
> Council" (www.electiontech.org) which says:
> 
> 	Millions of votes have been lost during recent elections in part because
> 	outdated technology failed, most notably during the 2000 presidential
> 	election debacle. Although electronic voting systems can solve this
> 	problem, widespread propaganda from a vocal minority is raising doubts
> 	about modern technology.s place in the voting booth. The ETC exists to
> 	help election officials, lawmakers, policy analysts, the media and the
> 	voters separate myths from reality on this important issue.
> 
> I'm never quite sure how seriously I can take BlackBoxVoting.org, I think
> I'm
> put off by the tabloid style. But I can't imagine that they would fake that
> agenda. And the Election Technology Council certainly do exist.
> 
> Scarey.
> 
> Margaret
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0308/S00175.htm
> [2] http://www.blackboxvoting.com/pdfs/itaa_memorandum.pdf
> -- 
> Margaret McGaley
> Margaret.McGaley at redbrick.dcu.ie
> http://evoting.cs.may.ie
> 
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