This is clearly a step in the right direction. Hopefully, more states will wake up and toss these electronic fraud enhancement devices in the landfill.
Great news!
Would you rather trust your money with an accountant or the government?
Hours of staring at chads by a select group of people via the news sure would make more sense. /s
purple finger good.
Last election in Washington and New Mexico they just kept "finding" more bags of ballots.
Lyndon Johnson won a senate seat with paper ballot fraud in Texas in 1958, JFK won the presidency with paper ballot fraud in Cook County, IL, in 1960, and Christine Gregoire won the Washington governor’s race with paper ballot fraud in 2004. So how are paper ballots so much better?
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This is a good thing.
There is no way that the balloting machine and the counting machine should be contained in the same unit.
One should simply print out a crisp, clear ballot with clear selections (and non-selections).
This should be handed over to the precinct workers who run them through a scanner to get a tally.
This gives a paper trail, a means of correcting a ballot before it is printed, and it gives a means of hand-counting ballots if necessary.
It should be a crime to have an election based purely on electronic digits in one machine. No paper trail = phony election.
They are contemplating mail-in ballots this election in CO. That must mean that the polls are too close to call and they need a way to have untraceable voter fraud.
I agree. It is prone to fraud on both sides. Old-fashioned paper ballots should be preserved.
Why would you conclude that???
Texas has a great system if you’ve ever worked an election with them...The recent investigations that concluded any suspected fraud with these machines have been adressed and I am many others do our best to make our system work for the voters...
I don’t know what system the state of Colorado uses, but Texas has the ESlate system by Diebold if I recall correctly...
We are trained and versed in how to work the machines and basic trouble-shooting, and have a floating technician that goes around several different polls in the area to cover any problems which have been extremely few and far between...
Harris County alone has been a case study (nationwide) to how well the systems work...
I for one, like how it has cut our evening closout procedures almost by 75% in how long it takes to get the info to the return locations on election night...
Paper punch ballots of old blew chunks as far as I can remember...
And this is not because I am an technology freak, I just like how well it has worked when you get everyone from the top to the bottom working together and training on the system once every election cycle...Those of us who have done it a few times get to have an abbreviated 30 minute session to re-qualify on it...
So all in all it depends on those at the top top get the right system in play, and work the system to support the voters, not the other way around...
When the voters get comfortable with it, and people stop yelling fire in the crowded theater...Thats when this all settles down...
Those that do mess with the machines and try to jimmy up the works...They eventually get caught and taken care of...No one keeps secrets like that long in things like this...
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