League of Women Voters drops support of paperless voting machines

AP ^ | June 14, 2004 | RACHEL KONRAD

[Cultural Jihad]

League of Women Voters drops support of paperless voting machines

By RACHEL KONRAD, AP Technology Writer
Last Updated 6:56 pm PDT Monday, June 14, 2004

The League of Women Voters rescinded its support of paperless voting machines on Monday, after hundreds of angry members argued that paper ballots were the only way to safeguard elections from fraud, hackers and computer malfunctions.

About 800 delegates who attended the nonpartisan league's biennial convention in Washington voted to adopt a resolution that supports "voting systems and procedures that are secure, accurate, recountable and accessible."

[Cultural Jihad]

An added layer of security would be to require a valid state ID in order to cast a vote.

[XEHRpa]

Ah, but such a sensible layer of security is consistently opposed by DemocRATs, because it would disenfranchise the illegal voters.

[steplock]

Their only real complaint is that it is the republicans in power and NOT their party!

Otherwise they would be dancing for joy at the prospect of falsifying all the election data!

[XEHRpa]

By the way, while I too am opposed to paperless voting, I've noted that in recent months it is all the Democrat constituencies that are having a snit over it. I'm beginning to think that they haven't figured out how to compromise the paperless systems in time for November, and are thus trying to return to the tried and true methods of paper tampering.

Just as the tax laws and FEC laws are changed every few years, not to improve the system, but just to throw a monkey wrench in the works of the scammers, I get the impression that voting methods should be rotated regularly, just to avoid having tampering methods become entrenched.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Yes lets just try and roll back the tide of technology. Too late the Genie is out of the bottle. It won't be too long before the voting process will be available to anyone and everyone to vote at home from the convenience of your own computer.
I believe they do this in New Mexico and I haven't heard about any problems, at least not yet.
Anyone out there in New Mexico tried this and how does it work?
I think once it is proven secure and can be such voting will the ease most of will like.

[upchuck]

When I attended a Poll Managers meeting a few weeks ago, we were told we'll have these electronic machines for the Nov election. Bummer!

I wish we could have had them for the local primary we had last week or the runoff we're having next week. Fewer voters and we would have time to get used to the machines. I live in a small precinct (1500 registered voters, mostly pubbies :), but I'm not looking forward to Nov. We'll be new to the machines and so will the voters. Ain't gonna be pretty!