Reply #11: Verified Voting: MS Primary snapshot [View All]

[EFerrari]

Mississippi Primary Snapshot
By Verified Voting Foundation
March 09, 2008

Mississippi holds a Presidential preference primary on Tuesday, March 11. Primary elections will also be held for federal offices and for Commissioners of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee District.

Mississippi has just under 1.8 million registered voters. Mississippi voters do not register by political party, and voters may choose a Republican Party ballot or a Democratic Party ballot at the polls. Absentee voters must have an excuse for being unable to come to the polls. Most votes in the primary will be cast on DREs with a voter-verifiable paper trail printer. The state does not require post-election hand audits of the electronic vote tallies, so there will be no manual verification of software-tabulated election results.

See the Verifier map for a complete breakdown of county systems. Here is a statewide summary:

* 77 of the 82 counties in Mississippi use the Premier (Diebold) TSx direct-recording electronic touch screen as the only voting system in the polling place. In all of these except Jackson County, the TSx machines are equipped with voter-verifiable paper audit trail printers. The TSx has been subject of extensive scrutiny in the past several years, most recently following the discovery of critical security vulnerabilities by computer scientists commissioned by the secretaries of state in California and Ohio. Both reviews concluded that neither the TSx's electronic records nor its VVPAT printout is sufficiently secure to record and store votes.

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