DU Please rate this story highly...Lets get it to the top

[Andy_Stephenson]

Nov. 3 issue — After the traumas of butterfly ballots and hanging chad, election officials are embracing a brave new ballot: sleek, touch-screen terminals known as direct recording electronic voting systems (DRE). States are starting to replace their Rube Goldbergesque technology with digital devices like the Diebold Accu-Vote voting terminal. Georgia uses Diebolds exclusively, and other states have spent millions on such machines, funded in part by the 2002 federal Help America Vote Act. Many more terminals are on the way.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/985033.asp#BODY

[goobergunch]

1. done (n/t)

[TruthIsAll]

2. Just gave it a 7..we need more of this kind..

It seems virtually ALL BBV articles are favorable for our cause and lambast Diebold, etc.

Now, when will our so-called representatives, apart from Holt and a few others, get moving on this?

[Andy_Stephenson]

3. Truth is all

you know I am running on this platform right? out of 414 people asked to sign my nominating petition only 9 have declined to sign.

[Zorra]

4. Thanks.

Great to see this story in Newsweek. Would be interesting to see a poll about electronic voting there, too.

[Andy_Stephenson]

5. we have one here

did you vote?
:hi:

[Zorra]

22. Yup.

Would like to see one in a "mainstream media" publication.

:toast:

[peekaloo]

6. voted (7)

[Andy_Stephenson]

7. Kick

:kick:

[Book Lover]

8. It's at the top right now

10:45 PST... Right above something about how to move on without your soulmate.

[Andy_Stephenson]

12. Outstanding!

way to go DU!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

9. It has been quite remarkable...

To watch the progress of this story, from its "tinfoil-ish" genesis, way back when, to having become The National Story That Will Not Die.

When history does its accounting on this story, I do so hope that the regular citizens on DU, as well as Bev and the core people, all get their well-earned recognition.

It this story alone that makes DU so much more than a forum.

[Andy_Stephenson]

11. I could not agree more.

remember 18,181

[GabysPoppy]

10. I gave it a Mickey Mantle

7

[leftchick]

13. done and thanks!

:kick:

[Andy_Stephenson]

14. no no no

Thank you!

[hedda_foil]

15. Done! But who's this guy ????

from the very last paragraph:

Mathematician David Chaum has been working on an ingenious scheme based on encrypted receipts. But whatever we wind up using, it’s time for politicians to start listening to the geeks. They start from the premise that democracy deserves no less than the best election technology possible, so that the vote of every citizen will count. Can anyone possibly argue with that?

[Andy_Stephenson]

18. I dunno...

I though tyou invited him :)

[Spazito]

16. Done!

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[in_cog_ni_to]

17. done n/t

[greatauntoftriplets]

19. Rated it a 7

:hi:

[Andy_Stephenson]

20. It is a good article.

I printed it for 3rd party testimony today.

[gulliver]

21. done n/t

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