This journalist seems to think Optical Scanners are fail proof. He doesn't know it's the TABULATOR PATCHES>WINDOWS PROGRAM>MODEM HACKING>3 possible avenues of FRAUD.
AND, there is no open source code. Which means we can't get inside of the machines patches.
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Article published Thursday, January 13, 2005
Blackwell orders counties to use optical scanning
Touch-screen voting out in OhioBy JIM PROVANCE
BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU
COLUMBUS - Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell took the option of computerized touch-screen voting machines off the table yesterday and ordered all counties to deploy optical-scan devices using paper ballots by the November election.
"We have a tight election reform deployment schedule, too few allocated federal and state dollars, and not one electronic voting device certified under Ohio's standards and rules," he said.
It's the same position he threatened to take a year ago when lawmakers first assailed his decision to set a deadline for counties to select from a menu of voting machines. Eventually, the General Assembly mandated that any electronic device be equipped with a paper backup system for recount purposes.
Although optical-scan devices, which use paper ballots read electronically, meet her paper-backup requirement, Sen. Teresa Fedor (D., Toledo) questioned Mr. Blackwell's rush to judgment.
The federal Help America Vote Act does not require full compliance until 2006.
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