Rep. Wexler up. He's troubled by the advent of the electronic machines.
This is the hardest I've laughed in days.
I'm baffled why he would be troubled. His party lobbied for the damn things in the aftermath of Florida 2000.
Oh this is rich, Wexler is bitching about e-voting machines. this is from his website:
http://www.wexler.house.gov/Issues_ElectionReform.htm
Election Reform
Congress must ensure that the American election system is the most accurate and fair in the world; on Election Day 2000, it was not. Thousands of Floridians lost their right to vote because of a breakdown in our electoral system, a misleading and confusing ballot, and a tragic decision by the US Supreme Court that put politics above the Constitution. Fixing the election system in America must continue to be a top national priority. Our goal must be to count votes -- not suppress them -- to open the system to all voters -- not intimidate them. We must commit the money, resources, and energy to fix our election process once and for all.
Since November 2000, election procedures in Florida have been revolutionized with many of our counties using electronic touch-screen voting machines. I have strongly favored replacing punch-card balloting with this new technology. I am pleased that Congress passed the Help America Vote Act (Public Law 107-252), which is providing an infusion of $650 million of election assistance money to the states. (Florida's share is $26 million).
Wasn't it under a DEMOCRATIC House of Representatives that they decided to record votes by electionic device for themselves?