Reply #26: Holt Already KEEPS Paperless Voting Legal!!! [View All]

[BradBlog]

With all due respect to WillYourVoteBeCounted, the Holt bill allows for paperless voting. All votes cast on DRE touch-screen systems are paperless votes.

Yes, Holt's bill will require a "paper trail" but not that that "paper trail" actually be counted. Ever.

It is your paperless electronic ballot that is counted when you use the DRE touch-screen voting machines as allowed by Holt.

As to adding "paper trails" to DREs as Holt requires, they are deceptive and misleading since they aren't actually counted, and can be gamed as well so they actually HURT the chances of an election challenge being successful (eg. the FL-13 JEnnings/Buchanan race would probably have been dismissed by now if those touch-screen machines had had "paper trails" which most likely would have said the same thing that the machines did).

I understand WillYourVoteBeCounted's opinion that Holt's bill is better than nothing. But I cannot agree with her at this time. I look forward to finishing reading the final version of the bill that passed out of committee yesterday to see what changes (positive and/or negative) have actually been effected. But I do know that DRE systems will still be allowed and that's a huge threat to democracy.