BBV folks: R. Doug Lewis mentioned in my LA Times

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

States' Ballot Reform Stalls
More than half still use punch-card machines as $3.9 billion allotted by Congress for upgrades sits idly and the 2004 election draws closer.

WASHINGTON — When Congress enacted legislation designed to avoid a repeat of the Florida voting debacle of 2000, one of the bill's chief sponsors predicted the dreaded punch-card machines soon would be found only "in the Smithsonian."

But less than 14 months away from the next presidential contest, more than half the states still use the machinery that produced the notorious dimpled, pregnant and hanging chads.



And the vast majority scarcely have begun to upgrade their balloting systems, unable to get access to most of the $3.9 billion Congress allotted for the effort a year ago amid great fanfare and a promise that Florida would "never, never happen again."

"This is the cruelest of all jokes," said R. Doug Lewis, executive director of the Election Center, a nonpartisan group in Houstonthat works with the nation's election administrators. "We promised the voters we would do something about this. They passed legislation to fix it. But because they have not yet funded what they promised, we have high expectations and low ability to deliver."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ballot19sep19,1,1375454.story?coll=la-home-headlines



I posted this in case any of you more aware of him than me would like to respond to the times.

[Friar]

1. the worst part of this

is that the districts stuck with the old faulty systems tend to be minority which historically vote democratic.

[bearfan454]

2. You know they do it that way on purpose

These guys suck !

[seemslikeadream]

3. Actually the worst part of this article

is that they're quoting R. Doug Lewis, they really should check their sources!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. A while back a number of Du'ers had looked into the background

of R. Doug Lewis. I don't recall where the thread is and don't know enough about him to address the Times myself on this issue...that is why I posted this.

[KoKo]

5. None of us could find out any info on Doug Lews.....even those of us

who can really dig.....and Bev had said she had access to Lex/Nex and still he didn't turn up.

Maybe since that thread months ago Bev & DemActivist have found info about him. I gave up on it because I couldn't help with anything they were doing with computer code so I don't always read all the BBV threads. Maybe they found out who he was.

[KoKo]

6. Yahoo Quick Search: Here's Bev's latest on L. Doug Lewis:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0308/S00072.htm

Decided to check quickly and this was the first thing that popped up in the search. It does give the only information that's available for him as of August 9th.

[seemslikeadream]

7. Thanks so much for posting that

I called the Times and left a message. Maybe someone will call back.
I sure would like to ask them a few questions.