DREs voted down in Buncombe County

[Kelvin Mace]

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060524/NEWS01/605240312/1009

SHEVILLE - The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday rejected a staff recommendation to buy touch-screen voting machines, with four of the five members saying they don't believe voters would have confidence in the machines.
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Commissioners had the option of accepting or rejecting the recommendation of the county Board of Elections, so they couldn't vote to buy the optical scan machines that they said they prefer.

About three-fourths of North Carolina's 100 counties have chosen optical scan voting machines, which allow voters to use paper ballots and then scan them.

"Touch-screen machines can be programmed to record other than what people actually entered," said Betty Bates of Black Mountain. "It seems as though every day there are new stories about security problems with electronic voting."

"We have to do anything we can ... to be sure the public is comfortable with the method of voting," said Commissioner Carol Peterson.

Congrats to the hardworking folks in Buncombe for stopping their county from embracing expensive, unreliable voting equipment.

David Allen
www.blackboxvoting.com

[bear425]

1. Good to hear - I think.

I'm moving to A-sheville at the end of the year. I would really rather have paper ballots and hand counts, but who cares what I want...

[Kelvin Mace]

4. Apparently

The Buncombe County commisioners care. <s>

[bear425]

5. Yes, good news.

And great work. Thank you!

[mwooldri]

2. Unlike Guilford bloody county...

Still stuck on electronic voting machines.

Have they not figured out yet that paper is cheaper? And a lot of a heck more reliable?

[Kelvin Mace]

3. We fought hard in Guilford

But we were fight the BoE and the CC. We did manage to scuttle George Gilbert's plan for "voting centers" which would have resulted in 40+ local precincts being closed down. He had to drop the idea, or be voted down on DREs.

[Kenergy]

6. Thank you for that post n/t