BBVish: Ion Sancho Rules!

[porphyrian]

For those of you who don't know who Ion Sancho is, he's the Leon County Supervisor of Elections in Florida. Leon county is where the state capitol, Tallahassee, is, and also the seat of Jeb!, George's more intelligent but no less sinister brother. Anyway, Ion was the only Supervisor of Elections to come out against the touch screen BBV crap. I just heard him on NPR saying that an independent study of the 2002 elections (I believe it was 2002) found that the counties using BBV were 8 times as likely to have blank votes (no vote for either main candidate) than the other counties. He emphasized that that was 8 times more likely that your vote does not count with this equipment. Here in Leon county, we use paper ballots and optical scanners, and we were one of the few counties that had consistent numbers in every recount in 2000.

If anyone else heard this on the radio, feel free to correct whatever I've gotten wrong. I was laughing pretty hard in my excitement at hearing something other than commercial or fascist propaganda on a local station other than college radio.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

1. I worked at a precinct in Leon Co in 2000 and things went very

smoothly. I think Ion has to be one of the best election supervisors in the country.

PS Did you lose power yesterday? Bet jebbie didn't!

[porphyrian]

2. Yep, got to leave work early, too.

I feel bad for all the state workers in Southwood, though. They never went out. Must be on equipment installed since 1962.

[Dirty Hippie]

3. I heard it.

I was very proud of Ion. He also referred to the deafening silence of the state on this issue. Correct except for Glenda Hood's "We have complete confidence in our touch screens" BS response.

On Edit: I hope Bev Harris is aware of Ion. He could be a tremendous ally for her.