Washington Post: Touch-Screen Voting Fallible, Ehrlich says

[AtLiberty]

Touch-Screen Voting Fallible, Ehrlich Says

Elections Official Urged To Back Paper-Ballot Bill

By Ann E. Marimow
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, March 6, 2006; Page B01

Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) has embraced a legislative proposal to abandon the state's touch-screen voting machines for the coming election, in which he is a candidate, and to lease others that provide a paper record to verify results.

"Maryland's lack of a paper trail means we are no longer a national leader in elections systems and that our equipment is susceptible to system failures," the governor wrote in a letter to be delivered today to the chairman of the State Board of Elections. "It is inexcusable for us not to be prepared for a catastrophic system failure in the 2006 cycle..."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/05/AR2006030501045.html

[RufusEarl]

1. A Republican governor?

Maybe he didn't get the memo, if he did and still requires e-voting machines with paper trail then he's putting country before party. So good for him!

[BeFree]

2. Got the hint?

methinks he heard that our side has hackers ready, willing and able to take advantage of the open backdoors in the dieblod machines.

he's just trying to keep liberals from getting our just revenge.