Reply #33: Athan Gibbs, Sr

[BrklynLiberal]

http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/03-21-04/discussion.cgi.6.html
NASHVILLE, Tenn. —- Music City was stunned last weekend when it learned that Athan Lee Gibbs, Sr. founder of TruVote International was killed in a two-vehicle collision on 1-65 near Metro Center Drive Friday morning, March 12 at approximately 10:30 am.

Gibbs, 57 was an accountant, auditor and inventor who single-handedly changed the face of elections in America when he developed the first touch screen voting machines (DRE) equipped with a Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT).

He named his machine the TruVote Voter Validation and Verification System, certified it with the federal government and began marketing the machine in 2002.

During the unprecedented events surrounding the validity of the vote count in the 2000 presidential election, it became apparent to Gibbs that several inadequacies existed with the voting systems currently used in the United States.

His concerns about the problematic election and his selfdescribed “passion for democracy” led him to invent the TruVote System.

“The paper trail serves three purposes,” Gibbs once explained. “It provides a means to verify that the DRE voting machine is accurately recording each voter’s intent. It offers a means to manually recount votes in close elections. Lastly, it gives voters confidence that their votes are being recorded and reported as they intended. It eliminates blind faith voting.”

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