Doubts fuel touch-screen voting debate in Broward, Miami-Dade (Florida)

[Synnical]

Posted April 13 2005

Mired again in controversy, Miami-Dade County's touch-screen voting machines could be on their way out.

Miami-Dade election officials are considering whether to disconnect the county's $24.5 million electronic voting system, after the latest rounds of complaints about the machines -- and some Broward County officials said Tuesday they would like to follow Miami-Dade's lead.

The April 4 request came less than a week after the county's former top election official, Constance Kaplan, resigned abruptly following revelations that the Elections Department lost hundreds of votes during the March 8 slot machine referendum because of a coding error in the electronic system.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-dmachines13apr13,0,5175429.story?coll=sfla-news-sfla

[hedda_foil]

1. Link, please!!!

[Melodybe]

2. here's a link to the verified voting petition

www.verifiedvoting.org

makes me feel better.

[Cyrano]

3. Until the Diebold and ES&S machines are replaced everywhere,

and paper trails become the law, we Democrats will never win another national election.

For anyone who really believes that Max Cleland lost in Georgia in 2002, I've got a bridge for sale.

And anyone who thinks that Bush really won Ohio in 2004, not to mention those three million plus popular votes, probably still believes that Iraq has WMDs.

Until the American public shrieks out in unison for non-black box voting with paper trails on every vote, we are going to go on getting screwed year after year.

Where the hell is Howard Dean, and all elected Democrats on this issue? The silence is defeaning.

[wallwriter]

5. You are absolutely right

This would make the founding fathers weep. People should be rioting in the streets over this issue.

[LynneSin]

7. I absolutely agree, but this is still great news

BTW, they another voting machine in Western PA was rejected by the Secretary of State in Pennsylvania.

I'm hoping that more stories like this come out and hopefully it'll happen across the country. The machines that were just recently uncertified in Western PA (which btw, is the area that Rick Santorum needs if he wants to get re-elected), was also used in Ohio.

Hopefully we'll see more areas of the country rejecting their machines because personally, I don't see our federal government doing shit to correct this problem

[Roland99]

4. Need to add this link to the OP

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-dmachines13apr13,0,2484984.story?coll=sfla-news-broward

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. So now that they are going shit can these systems

what does that say about the results of the 2002 and 2004 elections?

[Javaman]

8. Sure, they get rid of them now, they have done their job...

fraudulently put moron* in for another four years.

[Javaman]

9. self delete.