State rejects e-voting system

[Freddie Stubbs]

Counties scramble to replace Diebold machines
By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER

After possibly the most extensive testing ever on a voting system, California has rejected Diebold's flagship electronic voting machine because of printer jams and screen freezes, sending local elections officials scrambling for other means of voting.
"There was a failure rate of about 10 percent, and that's not good enough for the voters of California and not good enough for me," said Secretary of State Bruce McPherson.

If the machines had been used in an actual election, the result could have been frustrated poll workers and long lines for thousands of voters, said elections officials and voter advocates on Thursday.

"We certainly can't take any kind of risk like that with this kind of device on California voters," McPherson said.


more: http://www.insidebayarea.com/dailyreview/localnews/ci_2898218

[melissinha]

1. AMEN

Now lets have this coming from some of the more contested states.....

[datadiva]

2. Yessssss!

Sometimes I am really glad I live in California! Down with Diebold!

[Merlot]

3. However, if the machine ran smoothly, and the only glitch was a "missvote"

then we wouldn't mind. See, we can't have people NOTICING that there is a problem with the voting machine.

I haven't read the article, do they talk about the lack of verifiable voting?

[gristy]

4. A hollow victory?

Note the article says e-voting was rejected because of "because of printer jams and screen freezes". Not because of a lack of a means of independently and unambiguously verifying the integrity of the votes and their counting.

But I'll take it.

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[yurbud]

5. why do they keep reconsidering them? If a babysitter beat your kids

would you give her another chance?

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[yurbud]

6. you know what would be funny? first vote with paper trail required...

We get a initiative on the ballot for paper votes hand counted.

If they want to use the emachines for the handicapped--great. Let the machine print out their vote and hand count the print out.

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