Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Many in the Election Integrity community have been telling anyone who would listen that the new voting technology is expensive. Utah didn’t listen but now they are learning. The cost of this year’s election on Diebold DREs is twice what it was in previous elections using punch-cards. AND the taxpayer gets to continue paying millions of dollars to Diebold for the privilege of using their machines. The costs are so high that many Utah jurisdictions will revert to hand-counted paper ballots in local elections….
Sarasota mess creates a test case LINK
A dispute over a GOP victory may test Pelosi’s pledge to keep peace. LINK
Stakes demand completion of audit, fair hearing of her challenge LINK
Election machines fail to win state certification LINK
Contract with Diebold may put ballot expenses out of reach for some cities, counties in Utah LINK
Va. lawmakers will push for paper audit trails for machines LINK
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The Lt. governor of Utah claims he fought having to buy these machines that he actually fought to have placed in every county in the state.
In some circles they call that sabotaging yourself!
I call it incompetence.
Paper ballots. Now, that’s the kind of conservative that appeals to me.
Once again, it shows how the evoting manufacturers have misrepresented their product. Its about time that all of the electronic machines be replaced by hand counts. I don’t care if it takes a few days or a week to get the results. At least we know what the TRUE COST OF OWNERSHIP IS.