BBV: Lawyer takes on BBV in FL

[Bushfire]

sorry if this is a dupe, but I haven't seen it yet...

Criticism of Broward's touch screen voting machines intensifies

By Buddy Nevins and Scott Wyman
staff Writers
Posted September 28 2003

Samuel Fields views himself as a sensible and reasoned Fort Lauderdale lawyer, but others thought his crusade against electronic voting was crazy.

For two years, Fields has waged a campaign against the touch-screen voting machines embraced by much of Florida and many other places in the nation. He argued in letters-to-the-editor, speeches and to anyone who would listen that the devices are just another computer -- prone to failure and subject to fraud.

"I felt like I was a voice in the wilderness and one step from being considered a nut job," Fields said. (future/current DUer?)

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Dozens of university professors, the Communications Workers of America, the Wisconsin state elections board and the Illinois Legislature have called for voting machines to have paper ballots as a backup. The California Ad Hoc Touch-Screen Task Force called for a paper trail in its July report.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-cvoting28sep28,0,7226533.story?coll=sfla-news-broward

lots of info I didn't know about

[ParanoidPat]

1. Very important development.....

.....keep your eyes on this one! :evilgrin:

Thanks for posting this! :)

:kick:

[nolabels]

2. Anybody that argues against a broke system is nuts

So I guess this must be the epidemic mass insanity we all were warned about. Just go along with it, nothing to worry about here (not)

The humorous part I see in this article is here with these paragraphs.
(snip)
"They are listening to a handful of vocal people who are doing a huge disservice to voters by casting doubt on the voting systems," Browning said. "When voters don't have confidence in the system, they stay home on Election Day. A paper receipt would prove absolutely nothing."

The difference of opinion worries David Cardwell, a former director of the state elections division.

Cardwell fears a contested election next year could end up in court with dueling computer technicians debating the reliability of the machinery. And he says the state has opened itself up to the same constitutional arguments that prompted the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the recount in 2000 because the counties with ATM-style voting could not really have a tangible paper recount of their votes while other counties with optical scanners would.

Florida Republican leaders have so far rejected any attempt to require a paper record of voting as a waste of money.
(snip)

Waste of time or money what the difference? The price tags always get billions attached to it with republicans involved with it. I keep on dreaming I am living a world were extraterrestrials invaded and has had part of the population transferred from an exact opposite world were everything works backwards

[Bushfire]

3. I also liked this quote

"It's a bipartisan issue," (U.S. Rep. Robert) Wexler, (D-Boca Raton) "Republican officials unwilling to the join the issue? It boggles my mind."

[Kelvin Mace]

4. The cracks are widening...

WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE!

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