I don't know if that's their intent....but I agree, something's up here.
Rational thinking: Since this is the very county involved in the Chad Gore debacle, you'd think they'd have made EVERY EFFORT to ENSURE that voting scandal would not recur. We have a major election around the corner......maybe they are "practicing" for a new debacle, then can "look back at what happened in the primaries." (Just a thought here.)
Rather, this just points out that THEY think they somehow made political points in 2000, that other, rational minds actually agree with them.
I don't think they realize how they are the butt of jokes throughout the Union, because they are perceived as this stupid--again.
$17.3 million for new voting machines.
An annual budget of $5.3 million.
A permanant staff of 62.
Responsible for 2 elections bi-annually.
A Supervisors salary of $127,000 pa.
Three ways of recording each vote.
1. The transferable cartridge.
2. A paper print out.
3. An internal hard disk.
They have tried it all,losing cartridges, tearing serial no's off the machines, hiding the machines among the tallied devices,running the cartridges thru multiple times and all these are being caught. Expect a warehouse fire in November.