BBV: 6,000 ballots missed in Napa County

[eridani]

Yet more problems with voting machines, this time with the optical scanners that are SUPPOSED to count your paper ballot. Keep in mind that California is the only state that I know of that automatically audits one percent of the paper ballots. Can't audit the electronic ballots, of course.

http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,62721,00.html

After recounting more than 13,000 absentee paper ballots, Northern California's Napa County reported Thursday that an electronic voting machine used in the March 2 primary election missed more than 6,000 votes. . .

http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,62655,00.html

She added California is "one of a few if not the only state" that requires a hand count.

"The reason we have the manual-count verification is precisely because technology is not always reliable. There have been many instances like this where the manual count has been instrumental in flagging a vote counting problem," she said. . .

So why the hell don't they count all the votes manually?

[Zinfandel]

1. We have to insist on it!!! We've got to make noise about electronic voting

machines, or Bush will absolutely steal this election again.

[leftchick]

2. don't they use optical scan to count...

absentee ballots too? Paper and Pencil is the only way to go at this point!

[Andy_Stephenson]

3. Hey darlin...would you mind if I post this to my site?

this rocks!

[eridani]

4. I stole it fair and square for another site--why not?

:-)