BBV - Johnson County officials confident voting machines free of Ohio fla

[Kelvin Mace]

http://www.ljworld.com/section/stateregional/story/156178

Kansas election officials say they are confident in the trustworthiness of touchscreen voting machines in Johnson County -- the state's most populous county -- which are the same kind of machines that have raised alarms in Ohio.

Earlier this month, Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell delayed implementation of certain electronic voting machines after a review reported security flaws that could allow election fraud.

Connie Schmidt, election commissioner of Johnson County, said she had been monitoring the debate about the Diebold machines, but so far hadn't learned of anything that would warrant reconsideration of their use in Johnson County.

"They're not of a concern to me because of the internal controls that we have in place," Schmidt said.

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But Schmidt dismissed the notion that Diebold's product could be tainted because of the company chief's political ties. She said the machines were programmed at the local level.

"The vendor doesn't program our elections," she said

So, they wrote the code for their own machines? Go these people are clueless.

David Allen
Publisher, CEO, Janitor
Plan Nine Publishing
http://www.plan9.org

[Bandit]

1. All right ~ Now all we need is some liberal hacker to "fix" the election

like the Bush*'s do. We can easily outsmart them when it comes to computerese. Time to freak out all you Freepers. We got your number and you ain't gunna like it. We will win by at least one percent in every county. Bank on it. If you don't believe it how will you ever find out for sure. Remember No Paper Trail

[leftchick]

5. hee hee...

I am liking the way you think Bandit....

[Eric J in MN]

2. even if locals enter the list of candidates, what is going to stop

Even if locals enter the list of candidates, what is going to stop Diebold from adding a "patch" to corrupt the election?

We need paper ballots from touchscreen machines.

[Zhade]

3. Logical contradiction.

If Schmidt truly monitored the debate and was actually interested in maintaining fair elections, she'd be screaming from the rooftops to stop the use of such voting machines. There is a preponderance of evidence that shows the use of these machines is a debacle.

[Paulie]

4. I wonder...

... if she even KNOWS the software rev levels on say 25% of the machines in her county...

[SheilaT]

6. I live in Johnson County

Kansas and I don't want to vote by touchscreen if I can help it.

The alternative is an advance paper ballot, which I will probably get. But I'm concerned that those ballots won't get counted at all. I'm not sure there's any way to be certain my vote really and truly counts.