Reply #7: One must be very very careful... [View All]

[jen4clark]

...when dealing with The Crime Family. This is about a guy who had successfully developed the TruVote machine that offered a “VVPAT, that’s a voter verified paper audit trail." His name was Athan Gibbs - he's dead now...


Death of a patriot

By Bob Fitrakis


http://onlinejournal.com/evoting/031904Fitrakis/031904fitrakis.html

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Gibbs’ TruVote machine is a marvel. After voters touch the screen, a paper ballot prints out under plexiglass and once the voter compares it to his actual vote and approves it, the ballot drops into a lockbox and is issued a numbered receipt. The voter’s receipt allows

the tracking of his particular vote to make sure that it was transferred from the polling place to the election tabulation center.

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In an interview on WVKO radio, Gibbs calmly and methodically explained the dangers of “black box” touch screen voting. “It absolutely makes no sense to buy electronic voting machines that can’t produce a paper trail. Inevitably, computers mess up. How are you going to have a recount, or correct malfunctions without a paper trail?

Now, the man asking the obvious question, and demonstrating an obvious tangible solution is dead in another tragic accident, a week after both articles were in circulation.

-entire article at:
http://onlinejournal.com/evoting/031904Fitrakis/031904fitrakis.html