BBV: West Virginia Signs Pledge

[Galley_Queen]

to provide a paper trail! Woohoo! Got notice yesterday from TrueMajority:

"Americans in seven states - up from three states less than a month ago - can now be assured that their votes will not be lost by unreliable computer voting machines.

That's because the secretaries of state of Vermont, Missouri, and West Virginia - in response to TrueMajority.org's "Computer Ate My Vote" campaign - recently pledged to require all computer voting machines in their states to produce a voter-verified paper ballot trail. Those states join California, Nevada, New Hampshire, and Oregon, which already require a paper trail.

The Computer Ate My Vote campaign is urging secretaries of state nationwide to safeguard democracy as a growing number of their colleagues are doing.

In the past three weeks, our campaign has staged a national press event in Washington, D.C., that generated coverage on National Public Radio, on CNN, in Wired magazine, and by local outlets across the country; helped 35,577 TrueMajority members send faxes to their secretaries of state; and held news conferences addressing secretaries of state in Colorado and Florida, with Pennsylvania scheduled this week and others soon thereafter."

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I'e been pestering our SoS's office for m onths now. To their credit, they were very helpful and even provided me with a complete list of all software being used in our touch screen systems.

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[ThomWV]

1. Every Vote I've Cast In WV Has Been On Paper

I've lived in this state for 27 years now (a transplant from Dade County,FL) and every vote I've cast during that time (I've never missed an election of any sort) has been by pencil and paper. I did not know that at least up on this end of the state (Preston County) that funds were available for anything other than paper ballots.

[Galley_Queen]

2. There are Many Counties in WV

that are using electronic voting machines. We use paper in Marion county and that's fine by me.

http://www.wvsos.com/elections/ballots/votingsystems.htm for a list of the counties and what they use.