BBV: Two more Southern California counties allowed to use e-voting

[Kadie]

Two more Southern California counties allowed to use e-voting

The Associated Press
Last Updated 6:46 am PDT Wednesday, July 14, 2004

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - Riverside and San Bernardino counties will be allowed to use electronic voting machines in the November election after reaching an agreement with California's secretary of state to enact new ballot protections.

Among other things the agreement, reached Tuesday, requires election officials to provide paper ballots for voters who decline to use the touch-screen machines at the polls.

Lawmakers from Maryland to California are expressing doubts about the integrity of paperless voting terminals made by several large manufacturers, which up to 50 million Americans will use in November.

In the March primary, 573 of 1,038 polling places in San Diego County failed to open on time because of computer malfunctions.

more... http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/9992030p-10913435c.html

[cprise]

1. If the machines fabricate votes

...then it makes little difference if, say, half the voters choose paper. The vote tally will still be faudulent and there will be no truly auditable record for the electronic votes.

[natrat]

2. democracy, land of the free

give me a break---unreal i never thought it could happen in this country-guess i was just naive and civilizations come and go

[hunter]

3. If half the voters chose paper, that would be a meaningful protest...

Why have DRE machines if you have to have paper anyways?

[phoebe]

4. no accident that the majority of voters are Repub..

n/t