CT DU'ers: Griswold enters BBV age

[Bushfire]

In Griswold, voting enters computer age

EDITORIALS
Griswold this year is on the cutting edge of technology that, come Election Day, should presage the end of voting debacles as occurred in Florida in 2000.

Griswold is one of eight communities statewide that is testing electronic voting machines that will supplant the old lever-and-paper-ballot machines. The testing is federally mandated.

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A yellow smiley face on the screen warns when the final ballot appears. When it's all over, each voter receives a receipt of his or her ballot.

While the new machines may be intimidating to older voters, a demonstration will be held at the senior center to ease any misgivings.

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http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/stories/20030912/opinion/241281.html

It doesn't say when the demonstration will be, but maybe some locals could find out. It is encouraging these machines give a printout, but the voter cannot be allowed to leave with the ballot from the polling place due to vote buying argument. The article also doesn't say who the manufacturer is. This is a Gannett owned newspaper that is more than happy to have BBV machines in their district.

[Bushfire]

1. Kick

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[DoveTurnedHawk]

2. Paper Receipts!

A good step. But are the receipts just retained by the voter, or are they saved by the state?

DTH

[ParanoidPat]

3. The receipts being retained by the state.....

....is only the first step. We need to get out the word about the laws being set up with the help of R. Doug Lewis and the Election Center 'advising' NASS and NASED to mandate that the ballots be counted using a different electronic (optical scan) device but be counted by the same flawed software in the central count computer! The way it looks now, the laws are being written in such a way as to make it illegal for people to look at the ballots! A paper trail means nothing if the central count computer is compromised and people are forbidden to examine the ballots.

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