Women Voters Drop Paperless Vote Support (BBV)

[Carmerian]

"The League of Women Voters rescinded its support of paperless voting machines on Monday after hundreds of angry members voiced concern that paper ballots were the only way to safeguard elections from fraud, hackers or computer malfunctions.

"About 800 delegates who attended the nonpartisan league's biennial convention in Washington voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution that supports `voting systems and procedures that are secure, accurate, recountable and accessible.'"

AP story in the NYT here


This is good news!

[Joanne98]

1. Woo Hoo

Another win for the BBV. Congrats to all the du'ers that make this stuff possible.

[NMDemDist2]

2. good for them! Well done ladies! n/t

[dweller]

3. hot damn!

go ladies, go!

i hope this resounds loud and clear on the news...yet i doubt it will.
dp

[KittyWampus]

4. Holy Mackerel & Stop The Press!

this could signal a sea change.

[gristy]

5. Wonderful!

Next step is the LWV needs to oust the nazi leadership who had endorsed BBV.

[Don_G]

6. Good News

The word is starting to get out big-time.

If anyone wants to sell BBV systems, they had better be prepared to furnish a receipt AND certified open-source software.

[Ready4Change]

7. Well done.

Maybe someone there is waking up. Good job.

[AP]

8. Did the Berkeley professor win the election on Satruday?

[JohnGideon]

14. Barbara Simon decided not to run for President

Instead she ran for the board. As of three hours ago they were still counting the votes. She is very pleased, as you can guess, that a very large and vocal majority of members at the convention voted against the Board's stance on paperless voting.

[librechik]

9. fantastic news!

reason for optimism sorely needed here

[struggle4progress]

10. Yippie!

:hippie:

[jdj]

11. Yay!!!!!!!!!!

This is such good news!

Thanks for posting this. I have been reading about the fall of the Roman and Persian empires all day and have been drowning in all this history repeating itself so I needed some good news, couldn't have asked for better! Thanks!

[cprise]

12. Question is, will the NAACP follow?

They were the first to request computerized (paperless) voting after the 2000 fiasco.

Have we come full circle yet?

[obietiger]

13. Good news

I had joined the League for many years but did not renew membership when they supported paperless voting machines. I will think about joining again now.

[Joanne98]

15. Sign the petition

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x622467

To stop Ohio from using Diebold.

[crossroads]

16. Let's hear it for the fairer sex...

Good show, ladies!
:yourock:

[hedda_foil]

17. Congratulations to DU!

This is the work of two great DU'ers ... Bev Harris, of course. And Mr and Mrs. Merlin, who ran the LWV action from within. Kudos to the BBV team!