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Florida Senate plan would ban paper recounts with electronic voting machines
sun-sentinel ^
| Posted April 1 2004
| By Jennifer Peltz
Posted on 04/04/2004 8:46:13 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
TALLAHASSEE · South Floridians pushing for a touch-screen voting paper trail are steamed about a state Senate proposal that they say runs counter to their cause.
Tucked into the 90-page proposal (SB 3004) is a decree that "a manual recount may not be conducted of undervotes on touch-screen machines," which are used in South Florida's three big counties.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: electronicvoting
To: ATOMIC_PUNK
Tucked into the 90-page proposal (SB 3004) is a decree that "a manual recount may not be conducted of undervotes on touch-screen machines," which are used in South Florida's three big counties. Yes, Sir!
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posted on
04/04/2004 8:50:33 PM PDT
by
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(If Woody had gone straight to the police, this would never have happened!)
To: ATOMIC_PUNK
If you go read the article, here's a
link^ to the printer-friendly verison (less graphica and no popups), it's interesting that it's the RATS that are pushing for paper ballots.
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posted on
04/04/2004 8:55:55 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.)
To: ATOMIC_PUNK
"a manual recount may not be conducted of undervotes on touch-screen machines,"...
Umm, my understanding is that an undervote is when no vote is cast for a particular office. In 2000 they were looking for hanging chads and dimples. Do they want some way to record touchscreen fingerprint smudges?
To: Russian Sage
I don't vote every position on my ballot. I do it on purpose. I'm for not recounting undervoted ballots. It is actually an insult to think someone would assume I didn't know what I was doing. And if I didn't know what I was doing, it actually should remain uncounted. It's all called due diligence.
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posted on
04/04/2004 9:27:04 PM PDT
by
pacpam
(action=consequence applies in all cases)
To: Russian Sage
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