Activists sue to ban voting touch screens

[Omaha Steve]

http://themancommon.blogspot.com/2008/12/activists-sue-to-ban-voting-touch.html

Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Activists sue to ban voting touch screens

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Activists in Pennsylvania say they're pressing ahead with a lawsuit to ban touch-screen voting machines in the state's 67 counties.

The suit alleges the machines are vulnerable to computer hackers, don't leave a paper trail to verify votes are accurately recorded and don't always work properly, said the League of Women Voters.

Joining the league in the suit are the NAACP, Public Interest Law Firm of Philadelphia and incoming state Treasurer Rob McCord of Bucks County, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Monday.

The state Supreme Court last week gave the plaintiffs the OK to proceed with the suit against the machines, which already are being used in 50 of the state's counties, the Post-Gazette said.

Commonwealth Secretary Pedro Cortes, who approved the use of the machines, has said they work fine and the criticism is unfounded.

[Johonny]

1. touching should be

between you and the lord.

[ima_sinnic]

2. has anybody ever made a case for why they SHOULD be used? sheesh

it's not like they can say, they're "infallible" or "more accurate than paper & pencil ballots."

of all the useless things, this has got to be it. I was real happy, here in rural Maine, to vote with a paper and pencil, marking boxes with X's. At the level of a precinct, counting ballots manually, the way they do in England, with representatives of all the parties being witness, doesn't take that long. And "speed of counting" shouldn't even be a factor in a truly democratic process of voting.

[JackRiddler]

3. Spectacular!

That's a coalition that sounds like it might actually succeed. Thanks for the good news.

[EFerrari]

4. Go, PA!

:applause:

[dflprincess]

5. The Franken/Coleman race should be all the argument anyone needs against touch screens

the need for a paper trail is obvious.