[E-voting] Who are ITAA?

[Catherine Ansbro]

Is it possible that ITAA are a special-interest group set up to appear as a 
legitimate industry group, but really funded/controlled by others?  I have 
come to realize that such things are commonplace PR tactics, and in this 
instance I smell a rat.

Catherine

At 14:28 08/09/2004 +0100, evoting at stusoft.org wrote:
>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       outdated technology failed, most notably during the 2000 presidential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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