"Staff will not have time to accommodate individual voter concerns".

[Wilms]

Except for help submitting to a DRE. I have No Confidence in Tuteur's scheme.

Napa County voters to use two voting systems

By Times-Herald staff

NAPA - Napa County is providing its 66,000 registered voters two federal and state-certified voting systems for the June 6, 2006 Direct Primary Election, voting officials said Monday.

Absentee and postal precinct voters are using an optical-scan paper ballot. Early voting locations and 99 polling places are using touch-screen ballot boxes manufactured by Sequoia Voting Systems, equipped with a voter-verified paper audit trail.

"If any voter has an issue with either system, I strongly suggest they make their choice now and not wait until election day," Registrar of Voters John Tuteur said. "Our poll workers and central elections office staff will not have time to accommodate individual voter concerns on election day."

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"Ninety thousand touch-screen ballots have been cast in five previous Napa County elections by voters who found the system easy to use and secure," Tuteur said. "Our trained poll workers will be ready to assist any voter with touch-screen voting."

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http://www.timesheraldonline.com/todaysnews/ci_3697887

[GrpCaptMandrake]

1. Y'know, back in the Day, the ballot booth was sacred

"Will be happy to assist."

Bullshit. Really. How are they going to "assist."

"Granny, you need to put your finger *here* to vote."

Old West medicine shows were more honest!

[Kutjara]

2. What does this mean?

"voters...found the system easy to use and secure"

How the hell would voters know if the system is secure? Did each voter examine the encryption and VPN protocols used and the security of the datacenter where the ballot data is kept? What were voters told of the voting process? How many hands does the data pass through before it is tabulated? Could voters examine the balloting software to ensure that it didn't contain bugs that would misregister votes?

No. Of course not.

It makes me weep when crap like this is reported without challenge or comment.

[Amaryllis]

3. "voters who found the system easy to use and secure". Curious how the

voters evaluated security of these machines.

[kster]

4. k.nt