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Election Integrity Survey: SOS Candidates Respond
Submitted by Ginny on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 4:50pm.
The Oregon Secretary of State is in charge of Oregon's elections, making this an extremely important position for citizens concerned about election integrity.
Oregon Voter Rights Coalition is evaluating the 2008 SOS Candidates on their election integrity positions.
Early in March, we asked all of the SOS candidates to respond to a series of questions. (Click here to view our Survey.)
Sen. Kate Brown and Sen. Vicki Walker are the SOS candidates who responded to our Survey. Their responses are posted below. We invite readers to share their opinions about these responses by writing to info at OregonVRC dot org.
2008 Oregon SOS Candidate Survey Answers
 Senator Walker's response |
1. Do you feel any urgency that Oregon’s election system is not as secure as it should be? Do you believe that Oregon’s election results could be compromised (and potentially changed) by faulty, or hackable, software provided by private, for-profit vendors? |  Senator Brown's response |
Senator Walker's response |
2. How would you, as Secretary of State, propose to oversee and verify the accuracy of the machine vote counting given the secrecy that prevents citizens and officials from actually observing the vote count? | Senator Brown's response |
Senator Walker's response |
3. Do you find it acceptable that Oregon election outcomes can have a 39% chance of being incorrect and placing the wrong person in office? If not, would you support election verification protocols that provide a 99% level of confidence that the votes cast by Oregonians are accurately reflected in the outcome? | Senator Brown's response |
Senator Walker's response |
4. Could development of an open-source election system be a Win-Win situation for Oregon, providing transparency to and producing greater confidence in Oregon’s elections while also contributing to the burgeoning local open-source industry, and lowering costs by removing for-profit corporations from our elections? As SOS, would you pursue open-source options for counting our votes? | Senator Brown's response |
Senator Walker's response |
5. What is Oregon’s current process for testing the election systems provided by corporate vendors? Do you feel it is sufficient? Would you conduct a “top to bottom” review of Oregon’s voting technology (including voter databases and tabulating software) if you become SOS? | Senator Brown's response |
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