Bipartisan call to scrap voting by touch-screen

[JackieO]

Sacramento -- Two state lawmakers on Thursday called on Secretary of State Kevin Shelley to halt the use of electronic voting in the November election, citing glitches in Alameda County and Southern California during last week's primary election.

The bipartisan request from state Sens. Don Perata, D-Oakland, and Ross Johnson, R-Irvine, followed reports that voters were turned away from some polling places because of malfunctions and that confusion among poll workers in Orange County led thousands of voters to receive -- and cast -- the wrong electronic ballots.

The lawmakers said they are ready to pursue urgency legislation to suspend touch-screen voting in November if the secretary of state doesn't order the counties that switched to electronic voting to go back to paper balloting.


http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/03/12/BAG1P5IKJ523.DTL&type=printable

[truthisfreedom]

1. hahahahaha.

diebold's plan thwarted in BIPARTISAN move.

idiots never saw that one coming.

[Lindsay]

2. Nice.

I hope this one spreads across the country.

[fearnobush]

3. Any one who fights for voting with out a paper trail is someone

who wants to steal an election. Diebold and ES&S etc, all use paper trails with their MAC machines. Why has no one on the media shows made this known?

[shance]

4. Wow!! Bev, GB&C, Red Eagle and everyone else*****This is great.

And not to underscore, this must happen in every single county in the US where there are electronic voting machines.

[phoebe]

5. the fact that the Republican rep.from Irvine, CA wants to initiate

this is very telling, as Orange County is predominantly republican. I am laying odds that his career is in jeopardy from this point on.

[stepnw1f]

6. Let's Just Use Abacuses

[Moderator]

7. Locking

this is essentially the same as what's in this duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=416720