Yahoo Front Page: Groups Question Voting Machines' Accuracy

[West Coast Democrat]

(Yahoo Front Page Story)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031030/ap_on_el_pr/election_worries_3

By ROBERT TANNER, AP National Writer

Doubts about the trustworthiness of electronic voting machines are growing among election officials and computer scientists, complicating efforts to safeguard elections after the presidential stalemate of 2000.

With just over a year to go before the next presidential race, touchscreen voting machines don't seem like the cure-all some thought they would be. Skeptics fear they'll only produce more problems, from making recounts less reliable to giving computer hackers a chance to sabotage results.

"I'm deeply concerned about this whole idea of election integrity," said Warren Slocum, chief election officer in California's San Mateo County. His doubts were so grave that he delayed purchasing new voting machines and is sticking with the old ones for now.

He's not alone. While the Florida recount created momentum for revamping the way Americans vote, slow progress on funding and federal oversight means few people will see changes when they cast ballots next week. And new doubts could further slow things.

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[proud patriot]

1. Rate It and this one too

also about voting machines
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/election_worries_glance

[karlschneider]

3. Yeah boy! rated them both, and they are both above 4.5 rating...not too

many votes yet but here's a :kick:

Edit: My "yeah boy" was a spontaneous expression of exuberance, no offense to anybody not of the male persuasion. :D

[arcane1]

2. Rate them all!

:bounce:

Yahoo has been on a roll, though it's sad to be so excited just becaus ethe news is telling us ACTUAL NEWS!!! :)

[hunter]

4. I saw Warren Slocum Sunday

at a forum at the University of California Santa Cruz.

http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~ark/evoting.html

He was great.

[proud patriot]

5. Wonderful

:hi:

[Unforgiven]

6. Kick!

[dusty64]

7. Good news for a change.

Lets hope others are paying attention.

[0007]

8. Da folks have woke up to da scam, 'eh?

*

[dbt]

9. KICK!

Back to the Front Page with this one!

:evilgrin:
dbt

[ninkasi]

10. And putting his 2 cents in...

 
"The complaints echo those that came up when lever machines were introduced in the 1920s, and again when punch cards came on the scene, said Doug Lewis, an expert at The Election Center in Houston, Texas."

Is Doug Lewis. Since my memory is often faulty, isn't this the Doug Lewis Bev and some of ya'll were researching awhile back?

Trying to make it seem like those of us opposed to no verifiable audit trail are just a bunch of scared old hicks, fighting progress.

[morgan2]

11. also should check out

yesterday's democracy now, interview with rush holt.