Online PBS Show on HAVA problems - wants to hear from us - keep kicked

[helderheid]

The PBS show "NOW" just did a pretty good segment on the problems and what HAVA has wrought. You can watch or listen at http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/236/index.html .



Meanwhile, PBS wants to hear from you re Electronic Voting. Add your comments at the link below. Some of the comments already there are very good!



http://www.pbs.org/now/php/quotes.php?quote_date=2006-09-01



Lisa Pease
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[helderheid]

1. Down for the Count - without a vote we have no voice

Jammed machines, rejected ballots, malfunctions that declare the losing candidate the winner...if this were occurring on American Idol, you can imagine the outrage, but it's happening with a far more important American institution: democratic elections. New election machines, as mandated and funded by federal law, may create a new election debacle instead of correcting the old one.

In 2002, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), which allocated $3.1 billion for all 50 states to update their voting systems, following election fiascos in years past.

Some industry analysts suggest that the government implemented the new technology too quickly to the detriment of not only security and performance of the new machines, but the integrity of our democratic process. "Losing candidates are going to have more and more credibility when they say 'Well, I think that the voting machines were rigged,'" Avi Rubin, a computer science professor at John Hopkins University, told NOW.

[Peace Patriot]

2. You're right about the comments at the PBS site. They are excellent!

I just submitted mine.

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BUST THE MACHINES! VOTE BY ABSENTEE BALLOT THIS NOVEMBER!

[helderheid]

3. excellent!