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SeveneightyWhoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-02-04 04:51 PM
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BBV makes headline in Canada's national paper!
Computerized voting seen as threat

Some states demand printers that leave a verifiable physical record of the vote

By DOUG SAUNDERS
Tuesday, March 2, 2004 - Page A16


SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- U.S. voters watched in horror as the 2000 presidential election was stymied by an excess of physical voting evidence: hanging, swinging, bulging and dangling chads punched into ancient paper-card ballots.

Today, millions of voters are about to discover that the hundreds of millions of dollars spent remedying that debacle may have led to precisely the opposite problem: entirely computerized voting machines that leave absolutely no physical evidence.

(full article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040302/COMPUVOTE02/TPInternational/TopStories)
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