[kellynla]

IMO after all is said and done, the punch card ballots are less expensive, less complicated and more accurate than any touch screen voting machine.

[backhoe]

Cross-linked:

-The Vote Fraud Archives--

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Activists have been demanding paper printouts — required in California by 2006 — to guard against fraud, hacking and malfunction.

Those selfish activists! Don't they realize how many hackers are going to lose their jobs at the DNC because of this decision? < /sarcasm >

[mvpel]

Let's hear it for Jim March!!

[faithincowboys]

The reason they don't like the touch screen voting is because they haven't found a wayto cheat the system yet. When GA and FLA got touchscreen voting machines, the Rats lost. The Rats only win when they cheat.

[randog]

...the company had been singled out unfairly for problems with electronic voting and maintained its machines are safe, secure and demonstrated 100 percent accuracy in the March election.

How do you prove 100% accuracy on a voting system that has no mechanism for verifying accuracy? I've always been a vocal advocate for paper receipts on electronic voting machines because it provides such a verification mechanism.

[Theo]

It's a long article, but I didn't see any mention of what the alleged fraud was.

Is the journalist who penned this piece intentionally not providing the most basic of facts, so that people won't understand why this type of voting machine should be banned? Is the unskilled journalist (or editor) intentionally trying to make it a "he said/she said" rather than providing information so that I can make up my mind myself? Am I missing the obvious?

FWIW, I'm against electronic voting. I'm a software developer. Enough said.

[null and void]

Thank God!

[Political Junkie Too]

I'll give Kevin Shelley credit for doing this. I expected him, as a Democrat, to try to push the touch-screen machines through in order to facilitate fraud. I'm glad to see that he's bucking my expectations and standing firm on this.

-PJ

[CyberAnt]

I believe all the "counties" the AG is concerned with are "republican" leading counties. At least I know San Diego County is.

Also .. IIRC the dems were upset about the company making the machines, Diebold - BECAUSE THEY GIVE BIG DONATIONS TO REPUBLICANS; claiming the company would set the machines to favor the repubs.

Hmmmm? I wonder ..??.. if Diebold had made contributions to the dems would that have made a difference in how the machines were accepted ..??