Alameda County looking at e-vote system other than Diebold

[davidinalameda]

http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_2971631

Alameda County — the first large West Coast county to gamble on Diebold Election Systems Inc. and its electronic voting machines — is weighing whether to end that experiment, going with a more paper-based voting system and perhaps another supplier.
County officials are contacting voting-system vendors this week and asking whether they can provide a so-called "blended" voting system, with a winning bidder to be chosen in November.

Alameda is headed the way of many large counties — toward a hybrid of optical scanners for paper ballots and either electronic touchscreens or computerized ballot-marking devices for handicapped voters.

WHOO HOO!!!!!

The first nail in the Diebold coffin

[SoCalDem]

1. P-vote...NOT e-vote

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[nolabels]

7. Don't go vote without it

http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/

[Kelvin Mace]

2. Dump DREs

I am now hammering on our local election director who LOVES these spawns of Satan. He is sadly impervious to fact and reality.

[davidinalameda]

3. Letters are going out to the county election official

and the board of supervisors today!

GET RID OF DIEBOLD ONCE AND FOR ALL

[donsu]

4. have they considered paper and pen?

cheapist and most trustworthy if counted with an audience.

[wli]

5. best if they'd get computers out of it

I'm a computer programmer. I know better.

[caligirl]

6. My county, thanks for this news. I went with an

absenteeB in November but they were still using optical scanners with central tabs and who knows what they did there.

In our upcoming Nov special election I hope all the thousands who also went with absentee ballots vote. The typical low voter turnout for these just might not be a factor and thats good for us. Two of his three initiatives are loosing in the ratings polls. The only one ahead is extending new teacher probationary time.