[Tumbleweed_Connection]

What would this be like if the left had won their "chads" case?

[backhoe]

Cross-link:

-The Vote Fraud Archives--

[supercat]

For a system they can believe in, a handful of states are now requiring a paper backup be printed with every vote.

Is there any way to do anything meanngful with those paper ballots? Having paper ballots as a backup to the electronic ones is important, but it's also important to have a means of doing something useful with them.

[Graewoulf]

An un-punched, or partially punched, chad is the same as leaving a political list of candidates for an office unmarked.

Both the un-punched chad and the unmarked ballot are legally cast ABSTAIN votes.

When a candidate attempts to count these ABSTAIN votes as votes for himself, he is said to be guilty of trying to "Gore" the election.

[jackbill]

For a system they can believe in, a handful of states are now requiring a paper backup be printed with every vote.

These assholes are beyond belief. Can anyone - ANYONE - guarantee that the results on a paper ballot from a touch-screen system can be guaranteed to be the same result that is transmitted from the system? It's ludicrous.

[js1138]

In the 2000 election, thirty Florida counties used cheap, recountable, optically scanned ballots. During the recounts the machine scanning was proven to be perfect. None of these counties had to revise their totals.

Because of this record of perfection and autibility, all but three Florida counties switched to them. They were proven again in 2003.

Oh yes, those other theree counties that chose touch screen machines? Miami, Broward, Palm Beach.

Miriam Oliphant, one of those three election supervisors, is current being investigated for criminal negligence for causing a fiasco in 2002.