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Part 2: Jonathan Katz on How the World Came to Save Haiti After Quake and Left Behind a Disaster
To mark the third anniversary of the massive 2010 Haiti earthquake, we continue our conversation with Jonathan Katz, author of The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster. He was the only full-time American reporter in Haiti when the earthquake struck Port-au-Prince. In his new book, he examines explains where the massive international relief effort in Haiti went wrong.
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman, with Juan González. Our guest is Jonathan Katz, author of The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster. Jonathan is a former AP correspondent. He was in Haiti during the earthquake, the only full-time U.S. reporter in Haiti at the time. He lived there for four years.
Jonathan, the title of your book, The Big Truck That Went By, talk about it.
JONATHAN KATZ: It actually comes from a phrase in Creole, gwo machin ki pasé, "the big truck that went by." It describes the sound of the earthquake. Part of the reason why people were using different names—and that was one of several that were going around after the quake—was because there wasn't a lot of experience with earthquakes, even though there have been some in Haitian history. And so, people were just looking for a way to describe it.
But the two other pieces of it is I knew it would be evocative for, you know, readers in the States and elsewhere of the big aid effort that came through, and also, for me, it was evocative of the private trucks that would go through the city before the earthquake, because of the dissolution of the Haitian state, delivering basic services like water and power. And so, it sort of has a triple meaning.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We talked in the first part of the interview about the impact of President Clinton, but there were lots of celebrities that went to Haiti—Sean Penn and Wyclef Jean, of course, who's a—the impact of these celebrities on the so-called—on the reconstruction effort?
JONATHAN KATZ: Well, it's really interesting. I mean, Sean Penn, for instance, is actually a fascinating character. It's not—you can't simply write him off as being a celebrity who came in for a photo-op, and he's certainly not. But that doesn't mean that he shouldn't be—once you take him seriously, it doesn't mean that that's the end of the conversation. You know, he came in. He had no experience with Haiti. He had very—he had no experience being an actual aid worker, that—he really became one. He had on-the-ground training. But in the process of that on-the-ground training, within weeks, he is a leader in the aid effort. In the cluster meetings at the United Nations base in Port-au-Prince, he's taking a leading role. He's being invited to testify before Congress about the situation in Haiti. You know, he was allowed to sort of skip all of the interim steps between being new to a field and then becoming a leader in the field, simply because of his celebrity in the States, but also because of the differential in power between foreigners—white foreigners—and Haitians. You know, he was able to come in and be more important in Haiti than nearly anybody else in Haiti, simply because he was an important person in a powerful country.
AMY GOODMAN: But explain what Sean Penn did. He ran a refugee camp of tens of thousands, saying the other refugee camps just weren't working properly. When we visited Sean Penn, this was what he had to say in his camp just outside of Port-au-Prince.
SEAN PENN: Currently we're functioning as camp management for the Pétionville Club camp, or what they call here Terrain de Golfe. We have 55,000 IDP population in a camp that's about a hundred meters from here. And our job is to be principal coordinator of the other NGO actors in the camp and to advocate for the camp and to—we also function as a medical NGO and have a Class 3 hospital on site. And now, we're currently beginning a project of—we had done the first primary relocation, but I'm careful to talk about that, because it's—there's approximately 1.8 million displaced people, and to date, there's been a total of 7,000 people relocated citywide. And by "relocations," we're talking about getting people out of spontaneous camps and into planned camps, that have better security, better services, and they're out of flood zones and that sort of thing. But long term, the idea is to get people either into returns, into neighborhoods, making those neighborhoods functional and giving them services, and—or for those camps on the outside to become, instead of considered planned camps, really to be model communities, and for, hopefully, you know, business, manufacturing, jobs to come into those areas, and to go from tents, temporary shelters, ultimately into housing, and hopefully into land ownership.
AMY GOODMAN: That was actor Sean Penn running a refugee camp in Haiti. Jonathan Katz?
JONATHAN KATZ: Yeah, I mean, he basically became the mayor of a village of, you know, tens of thousands of people, somewhere between 40,000 and 60,000 people, depending on who's counting and on what day. It's an incredible amount of responsibility. And, you know—and I have to say, you know, I've talked to Sean Penn a number of times, and I think he took his responsibilities seriously. But he also didn't shun the incredible amount of power that he was bestowed with.
One example that I talk about in the book—and this was fairly early on while he was still really learning the ropes—was that there was a very unfortunate case in which a young man, among the displaced people that he was overseeing, contracted diphtheria and died. And it was—it's a tragedy; it was very sad. And Sean Penn, I think, did commendable work trying to get him help. In fact, he used his celebrity and his power to mobilize assistance for the young man in a way that nobody else, not even another aid worker, would have been able to do. But then, you know, focused on this one case, he took to the airwaves—I think he went on CNN—and, you know, really stirred up a bit of a panic about a pending diphtheria outbreak, which wasn't happening and wasn't likely, which, you know, allocated resources. It changed the dynamic on the ground. It was just an example of an error that a more experienced aid worker probably wouldn't have made. And even though there is something to be said for being new and doing things in a different way than have been done so ineffectively before, you really have to—you really have to be careful. It's so easy to come in in Haiti and step on toes and be a bull in a china shop.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And Wyclef Jean and all the—all the controversy over whether his charity was actually doing what it said it was going to do?
JONATHAN KATZ: Yeah, Wyclef is another interesting guy. You know, he obviously briefly became a politician, probably had the inside track to being president of Haiti, had he not been excluded from the ballot right before the election in 2010. There were a lot of questions about his NGO, Yele Haiti, even at the time. Since then, even more revelations have come out that he was maybe pocketing money himself. He was using funds from the NGO to pay himself to do performances—you know, a lot of really ugly things. And the charity has been thoroughly discredited at this point. But, you know, he's another—he's another interesting character.
AMY GOODMAN: How was it thoroughly discredited?
JONATHAN KATZ: Well, because people—because of these disclosures that he had unpaid taxes, that it was using money, you know, to—perhaps to line his own pockets, or at least to help with his recording career, and not do what was promised, which was, you know, to help people on the ground in Haiti. You know, and ultimately—one of the most disappointing things about Yele is that it was looked at as being—you know, since it was run by a Haitian American, it was a Haitian NGO, that maybe it would be more on-the-ground and, you know, more direct assistance to the people who actually live there. But in many ways, it turned out to be worse than a lot of even, you know, the so-called Beltway bandits.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, let's talk about Haiti as an example of how international aid works or, perhaps more importantly, doesn't work. It's three years after. The subtitle of your book, How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster.
JONATHAN KATZ: I mean, part of the problem is that our conception of how foreign aid works is not how it actually happens. We imagine that, you know, powerful countries just have this pot of money, and that when they give foreign aid, they just hand it over to a poorer or vulnerable country, and that if there aren't results on the ground, that something must have happened—the money must have gotten stolen, or there must have just been gross incompetence, and somebody put the pot somewhere and forgot where they left it, right? But that's not really what happens.
You know, what ends up happening is the money is spent by the donor governments on their own agencies within their own governments. You know, as I've said, the money kind of goes in circles. It goes to priorities that the donors think are important, but are not necessarily actually the priorities that are most important on the ground, or at least are not the priorities that the people who live in these countries actually want. And very little effort is made to cross language barriers, to take into account these gross disparities in power. And so, you know, people come in, and oftentimes they have good intentions. Sometimes they have good intentions combined with their own profit motive. But what ends up happening is that the aid system is helped, the NGOs grow more powerful, the governments are able to, you know, circulate more money amongst themselves and amongst their own favored elements, but, you know, in the case of Haiti, as a really good example, the emergency situation becomes permanent. And every time there is a new crisis, and—the officials can say, "We can't do it better this time. There's no time. Let's do it next time." But then it never changes.
AMY GOODMAN: Your final conclusions, as you leave Haiti after four years, have written the book The Big Truck That Went By?
JONATHAN KATZ: I would say that there really is cause for optimism, because there is an opportunity—there's always an opportunity to change the way things have been done and to do them better. But, you know, what I've seen and what the people that I've interviewed have said, who really know the situation, including, you know, aid workers from these major organizations who are on the ground, is that things have to change. And if things can start changing now, things will improve. But if foreign aid keeps being done in the way that it has been done and the situation in Haiti remains the way that it has been, we're going to see more and more and more of these disasters, and possibly even a repeat of the tragedy of January 12th.
AMY GOODMAN: Jonathan Katz, I want to thank you for being with us. The book, The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster. Former AP correspondent in Haiti, where he lived from 2007 to 2011. This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report.
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Joe's new shooter picked up his LE6920 today. He's thrilled, I'm thrilled he's thrilled, here's to a convert.
On fame, or nearness to it, part II
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Best laid plans, and so on
I had planned to attend a wedding reception this afternoon in Portland, but a co-worker's wife had a medical emergency Friday afternoon and all plans for weekend coverage were set aside. She's out of the hospital now, but it would have been nice to make it to Portland. Hopefully I can make amends later in the year.
TGIK has been looking for an AR15, so we went to the local shops to look-see some. The plan was to find something carbine shaped he liked and buy it. The first store wouldn't sell him a gun until they explored every option in depth. I've never seen someone work harder to befuddle a newbie and not sell a rifle. The second store started pushing that whatever-of-the day using great tactics like "a few months ago, this was a $2500 rifle!" Yeah buddy, every rifle was $2500 a few months ago. Credibility shot, no rifle was purchased.
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On metadata
I worked in ITG, Microsoft's internal technology group (AKA operations) in the mid-late 90s, as well as Microsoft's internal security group. ITG owned the internal USENET server; it was run on a machine under someone's desk (maybe not literally, but it was recycled hardware well behind the current state of the art hardware). It did just fine – until it didn't. It was falling over under extreme load, which it shouldn't have. Looking into it, it was clear one user was downloading huge amounts of child porn via USENET. I was one of the few UNIX guys in tools, so it fell to me to add specific logging to see exactly what this guy was up to.
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2&4, 3
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Give it away
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For more than a century now, one local newspaper has helped deliver interesting stories and the latest need-to-know news and events at .
It's not the Record-Journal, the Southington Observer or even the Hartford Courant making this claim, however. Instead the 100 years of success belongs to The Emblem, a student-run newspaper that has continued to provide a focus on all the news that matters to Southington's high school students.
Despite a rich history that actually dates as far back as 1898, Emblem Advisor and Southington High School Journalism Teacher Raymond Dischino said the goal remains the same: to encourage students to find the stories within and reinforce their skills as aspiring writers.
"So often, students have a vision that the news happens elsewhere and they may not know there is a great story lying within the student sitting right next to them," Dischino said. "I want to really teach them the value of telling a good story."
The school celebrated the 100th anniversary of the paper last week, but school library staff said the paper wasn't without its challenges over the years.
For a 16-year period, a combination of staffing issues, printing challenges and other complications led the paper to combine with the school yearbook. The Emblem, which had been established in 1898, did not have its own version and as a result, there was a delay in the celebration of the 100th anniversary.
The exact history of the newspaper and those missing years remains vague, but what is not so incomplete is the success story that has followed. The paper now prints five or six editions per year, focusing on all aspects of student life.
Southington High School seniors Caitlyn Flynn and John Foti, editors with the 2011-12 staff, said working on a team to produce the newspaper has been an invaluable experience.
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Flynn and Foti are each choosing different routes after high school – Flynn will attend Marist College where she will major in communications, while Foti will focus on political science and economics at American University – but both said the experience has better prepared them and helped fine tune their writing and editing skills.
Although the newspaper still provides the delivery of news through traditional print, Dischino and the students said with 100 years of history, its time to look to the future.
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Paid placement listings have come to several major UK search engines, over the past few months. GoTo is providing results to the UK editions of AltaVista and Excite, while Espotting is providing listings to the UK versions of Lycos and HotBot.
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Jupiter MMXI Europe Ratings
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This lesson builds upon the concepts that were learned in the previous Excel lesson. The topic covered in this training is report generation: using formulas you have already learned and advanced Excel tools to make analysis of data and generation of reports easier. The objective of the lesson is for the user to be comfortable with creating basic reports using formatting tools, printing reports, charting, and creating Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts. The lesson teaches concepts through a combination of image-based slides and video tutorials.
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Thank you for running a series of stories about the 1864 Yosemite Land Grant and the great park it started.
I am especially proud of this legislation that was introduced to the U.S. Senate by my great-grandfather, John Conness, U.S. senator from California, 1863-69. Sen. Conness came from very humble beginnings in Ireland and worked to rise to the Senate. He also served in the California Assembly in the 1850s. He worked with the grant to ensure its passage in both houses of the Congress and to get his friend, Abraham Lincoln, to sign it.
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I just made a hard and chewy focaccia, help!!!!
I recently got a KitchenAid mixer and my very first project was this focaccia:
It turned out slightly hard and chewy, not fluffy and soft as I was hoping! Very dissapoiting.
Does anyone know why?
Looking for tips, I found another recipe that uses the same amount of yeast and more olive oil for half the amount of flour.
Can this the be the reason? Should I use more yeast and oil? Hope someone would have any good tips!
Thanks a lot!!
Depending on who's formula you use, a cup of flour will run 128 - 142 grams. For sake of analysis, let's uses the 142 grams figure. 8 ounces of water will weight about 227 grams. That means that your first Focaccia formula holds a hydration level of approx. 62%; IMO, too dry for a Focaccia.
The second formula holds to a hydration level of approx. 82%; a much better approach to Focaccia.
My own forumula relies on a 70% hydration factor.
Your first recipe combines salt with yeast very early. Yeast and salt don't get along well and IMO you lost some of your yeast's influence at that point.
The second formula is a much more favorable environment for the yeast.
There are other differences in the two recipes which, even though I don't agree with using honey in a Focaccia, cause me to recommend you forget about the first one and work with the second.
Allow me to add that using bulk measure for bread recipes will never give you consistent results. Beg or borrow (don't steal) a scale and work with bread formulas that provide weights for ingredients rather than bulk measure.
If want to get caught up in the vortex of bread making spend some time on this site:
One last point. When a recipe suggests letting a dough rise for a specific amount of time, find another one. When proofing dough you watch the dough, not the clock.
Here's one of my favorite Focaccia recipes by Peter Reihnart.
Makes a very nice bread.
Just wanted to add my .02 to this.
#1 Reihnart's Focaccia recipe is very good.
#2 Your recipe needs more olive oil.
#3 Folklore about mixing salt and yeast have been around for ages but is mostly incorrect. Every 'scientific' study has shown that salt-stressed yeast is actually "more" productive and reduces fermentation time. But not only that the bread quality it's self is better. I have been using this technique for over 30 years as have many high end bakeries.
"Salt-stressed yeast leads to bigger, softer bread: Study
Exposing Baker's yeast to a salt solution prior to bread baking can improve the volume, texture, taste, and aroma of the finished product, says a new study."
One thing you will find out is that if you ask two cooks a question you will probably get 5 answers, the irony is that 4 of them are probably right.
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I agree wholeheartedly about #1. If you look for it online, it's the Reinhart recipe w/out the sugar. There is one w/ sugar that isn't the BBA one, nor do I think it is Reinhart's. It's good but not nearly as good the BBA.
I've read repeatedly about #3 with salt retarding yeast but never found it to be true and I can be heavy handed w/ salt. It's good to know it's not just my imagination.
To the OP, a longer rise is better so let it sit in the refrigerator more than an hour. An overnight rise, if you're not starting w/ a starter is best. I think it's better to start w/ a good recipe, than try to tweak and iffy one.
re: RetiredChef
Their test included a sugar component that is atypical of the testing I've worked with so I can't compare their findings with the others I'm familiar with.
You may want to read this "scientific" report from King Arthur
The OP asked
"It turned out slightly hard and chewy, not fluffy and soft as I was hoping! Very dissapoiting.
Does anyone know why?"
How would you explain that experience?
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I have a few people in my family who still do not understand things like blister on the wood-fired pizza ("it's BURNED!") and good, crusty bread ("it's HARD!")
My departed dad judged bread quality mostly by how "ooh, soft!" it was.
So it does need to be asked. OP, not trying to insult you!! Just conversing....
re: sandylc
I have seen focaccia from stores that are light and fluffy so it is a good question. Focaccia should be "harder" and especially chewier. Maybe the answer is just that simple. Although I still stand by what I said about a longer rise giving a better texture. I don't think I'd use either of the recipes in the OP, as is.
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re: todao
I can only tell you what 30+ years of my baking experience has told me, what my fathers 50+ years (he was a professional baker) and numerous other professionals all say. Currently I am eating a very beautiful boule that I started earlier today with water, yeast and SALT mixed together. It proofed slightly faster and came out with a better texture, smell and crust than if I had waited to add the salt into it. There is no sugar in this loaf.
I suggest that you don't believe me or others but try it for yourself, make two of your favourite loaves one with salt added at the beginning and one when you regularly add it and then taste and see the difference. Ask other people to try the two loaves and see which one they prefer. The test will tell you better than I can.
re: RetiredChef
I am finding this whole salt thing very fascinating! Professional bakers who write books always instruct to delay the salt when making sponges, poolish(es?), etc. Is this akin to the "don't wash mushrooms" myth that won't die?
I am trying your comparison as soon as I get the time.....thanks.
What is probably happening is that your bread is forming a crust right away and the dough has nowhere to expand so you end up with a very dense piece of bread.
This is why we slash bread, and bake in an initial moist environment. The slashing allows the bread to open and expand, while the moisture retards crust formation.
Outside of a steam injection oven, you can slash and mist your dough with a water sprayer (like for plants) You want it wet, but not soaking, so don't run your hands under water then over your dough, not forming clay here (and you'll end up with a super thick crust).
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"I think a few people in this have touched on possible reasons" It's ok, since I've learnt a lot from all your posts. This was my first time ever making bread, and I believe as I stated above the problem was a combination of several factors. One of them also the wrong recipe. So instead of trying to make the same one I will try with Reinhart's one! Hopefully this time it will tourn out better!
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THIRTEEN young disabled riders from the Riding for the Disabled Association's Unicorn Centre based at Hemlington, near Middlesbrough have done the North East proud returning with a fistful of medals and rosettes from the RDA National Championships at Hartpury, Gloucestershire.
This year the Centre took the largest contingent of riders and horses in the Yorkshire and Cleveland region for the third year running.
The RDA National Championships had over 450 competitors, including riders from all of the charity's 18 regions across the UK. The flagship event held at Hartpury College, is now bigger than the Paralympics and Para World Championships combined with Paralympic stars and celebrities in attendance.
In the Dressage Competitions the four Senior Riders all had great success: Susan Wilcox came 6th in the walk/trot and 3rd in the RDA Freestyle riding Louistic De Sie: Jane Lishman came 12th in the RDA Dressage Grade II and 4th in the RDA Freestyle riding Murphy II, Marianne Coutes came 4th in the RDA Dressage to Music and 2nd in the Grade 4 test riding Geisha, Laura Forbes came 9th in the RDA walk/trot on Louistic De Sie.
Junior riders also did well: Alice King on Murphy II came 17th in the RDA Dressage Grade III
Fiona Bennet on Paddy came11th in the Grade III and 5th in the RDA Freestyle
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In the Countryside Challenge four riders from the Centre took part: Lorraine Dobson coming 3rd, Tracy Green (pictured) and Grace Turner coming fourth in their sections and Kate Telford 9th.
The team's fantastic victory followed months of training and success in the regional qualifiers and continues the high standard Unicorn Centre is now achieving at national level.
The riders were accompanied to Hartpury by their families and friends, five horses, three instructors and a team of volunteers. Yard Manager Heidi Hutchinson said, "All the riders worked so hard and performed way above our expectations. We are so grateful to everyone who contributed to their success, particularly dressage clinic coaches Kay Brandon and Felicity Evens who spent many hours coaching the dressage team."
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Fly-half Butch James has claimed that "the disgraceful way" negotiations were handled ended his hopes of returning to the Sharks. The Springbok World Cup-winner has now decided to stay with Bath rather than return to South Africa.
James said a deal had almost been completed in March only for it to fall through at the last minute. Bath had reportedly demanded a transfer fee to compensate them for the loss of the outside-half who has two more seasons on his contract at the Rec to run.
"I'm not too sure where it broke down, but it was pretty embarrassing for me," he told The Bath Chronicle. "I think the Sharks were pretty disgraceful in how they handled the whole thing. I can't have any moans with Bath - they were open to an offer. But the Sharks were pretty embarrassing in how they handled it. It put me in a funny situation. They had been chasing me since January and I eventually followed my heart and said 'Let me give it one more go'.
"They made the initial chase and in the end it fell through, so it made me look like a bit of an idiot over here with my club and my team-mates. All of a sudden the Sharks closed the door. They almost said everything was in place and it was almost 90 per cent that I was going to go home. Then they pulled the rug from under my feet. I'm not too happy about it."
The 31-year-old said he wanted to return to his old province in an effort to regain his place in the Springbok squad. He still believes he has a chance of playing in the forthcoming games this June, but said he had to prove his durability at Bath, having returned from a fifth knee operation in February.
"I wanted to go home so I could give the Springboks another go, but I'll just have to try to make it from Bath. I think it will be pretty difficult to make it from here. That's how I understand it. The coach [Peter De Villiers] wanted me to be playing back at home but there's nothing I can do about it. I'm here and I'll have to give it a go. I don't think the door is ever closed. I'll just play my best for Bath. That's all I can do - the rest will be left in other people's hands."
Sharks chief executive Brian van Zyl has hit back strongly at James' claims, insisting that the players' demands were 'ridiculous'.
"We were not prepared to pay a transfer fee, because we weren't paid one when Butch went to Bath," Van Zyl told sport24. "What is also strange is that Butch indicated how much he'd like to play for the Sharks again, but then extended his contract with Bath for another two years. He also wanted to be paid a ridiculous amount of money to return to Durban."
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Lottery expenses and charitable contributions - Taiwan's experience
AbstractIndividuals' contributions are affected by their lottery outlays if they consider their spending of lottery funds on charities to be a substitute for or a complement to their direct charitable contributions. This study investigates the effect of lottery outlays on charitable contributions based on the experience of lottery introduction in Taiwan. The estimates reveal that lottery outlays exert a positive effect on charitable contributions while the quantitative impact is significant. This study thus provides evidence ameliorating the pessimistic prospect that people may reduce their direct charitable contributions when they spend more on lotteries. Possible explanations for the positive effect are also discussed.
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More e-voting tests slated in contested Fla. voting district
Officials are still probing an 18,000-vote undercount in a 2006 race
Computerworld - A U.S. House of Representatives task force has voted to authorize additional testing of e-voting hardware in Florida's 13th Congressional District to try to determine whether problems with the machines could have contributed to an 18,000-vote undercount in the 2006 U.S. House race.
In a unanimous vote Tuesday, the Committee on House Administration's Election Task Force adopted three additional testing scenarios for the e-voting machines, which were proposed in a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The task force had asked the GAO to look at the e-voting hardware in the contested election and report back with its recommendations.
In its 27-page report (download PDF)," the GAO said that previous testing of some of the e-voting machines did not include a large enough sample to provide accurate results.
The 18,000 undervotes -- or votes that were not cast at all in the Congressional race by voters who turned out for the overall election -- occurred in Sarasota County, Fla. The losing candidate in the race, Democrat Christine Jennings, and other e-voting critics, argued that the undercount was too large to have occurred naturally and blamed problems with the e-voting machines. The 1,499 e-voting machines used in the election were direct-recording iVotronic systems made by Election Systems & Software (ES&S) of Omaha.
Jennings lost the election by 369 votes out of 238,249 votes counted. Republican Vern Buchanan was certified as the winner in the race.
"We found that some of the prior tests and reviews provide assurance that the voting systems in Sarasota County functioned correctly, but they are not enough to provide reasonable assurance that the iVotronic DRE voting systems did not contribute to the undervote," the GAO report said.
Rep. Charlie Gonzalez, (D-Texas), chairman of the task force, said in a statement that "the results of the GAO's testing will play an essential role in determining whether the machines did or did not contribute to the undervote in the contested election. The testing and its results are crucial; in their absence, we cannot answer this question with the confidence and assurance that is necessary."
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