Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
“Among the supposed benefits of electronic voting —- of which Riverside County was a pioneer, and for which it spent in excess of $30 million —- were greater accuracy, reliability and speed. What we appear to have gotten for that money was less reliability and slower results. The question of accuracy remains unanswered and here we are, almost four weeks after the election, and the Registrar of Voters office just posted what appear to be final numbers late Saturday.” / “What is the point if you run it through the machine again?” said Mary Kiffmeyer, the Minnesota secretary of state, who instituted hand recounts in 2000. “If you do it by hand, you’re doing an audit on the machine.”…
An overflow crowd alleges incompetence, election judges want their pay and the mayor predicts serious changes. LINK
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RE: Testing Undervote Hypotheses in Sarasota
The lengths needed to get through a seemingly blind or extremely expensive, yet still inconclusive, audit should be enough to discourage DRE voting altogether. What logical person or organization would accept this?
Every time I read the stories on this site I have to bang my head against a wall! Eventually I should end up with the same condition as those who approved these things in the first place…
Feinstein Calls for Legislation Mandating Paper Trails and Audits
– Tom
I saw that too Tom. Now we have to get on her butt about having the electronic count as the preliminary tally and the hand counted as the final tally
Make sure she writes it up that way with touchscreens being illegal as a way of voting
I guess I don’t really trust her much, with hubby feeding off the Military Appropriations trough and all
…And don’t trust what Kiffmeyer says too much, read my link and you’ll understand why
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A better one on Kiffmeyer
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