Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
As related by John Bonifaz of Demos and the National Voting Rights Institute, in a blog on BradBlog.Com, “[Yesterday], Congressman Rush Holt introduced H.R. 811, a bill trumpeted as requiring ‘a voter-verified permanent paper ballot.’ But before we all jump on this train as the new guarantee that our votes will be properly counted in future elections, we ought to beware of the warning flag. A paper trail from DRE (Direct Recording Electronic, usually touch-screen) machines cannot protect the integrity of our elections.” And “the Holt bill tries to say it is requiring a paper ballot even for DREs, but, in the end, a DRE ‘paper ballot’ is nothing more than a paper trail, which requires voters to verify their votes after they have cast them in the DRE machines. Studies show that most voters will not spend the time to verify their votes after casting them into DRE machines. Thus, the ‘voter-verified paper ballot’ is a fiction when it comes to DREs.”
In the wake of the resignation of Cuyahoga Co Ohio’s election director is the news that memory cards used in local elections in the county failed again.
Officials in California and Idaho are calling for legislation to allow counties to use the Oregon Vote-By-Mail plan….
NAtional: Why the Holt Election Reform Bill Must Be Amended to Guarantee a Real Paper Ballot LINK
NAtional: Legislation would demand paper trail of voting records LINK
NAtional: Senate Rules Committee Hearing Testimony LINK
NAtional: Politicians call for e-voting paper trails by ’08 election LINK
NAtional: E-Voting Machines Get The Fish-Eye LINK
NAtional: Key senator calls for paper trail of 2008 presidential votes LINK
CA: Mail-only elections on considered LINK
CA: San Benito County – No Problems with SBC Voting Machines LINK
FL: Victory Video: New Florida Secretary of State Says He’s ‘Physically and Mentally Exhausted from Defending Touch-Screen Voting’ LINK
FL: Advocates renew call for paper voting trail LINK
FL: Study: Blank ballots less likely with paper LINK
FL: Polk County – Charlie and the Paper Trail LINK
FL: Sarasota County – Feinstein wants federal audit of Sarasota’s voting machines LINK
ID: County clerks push vote-by-mail measure LINK
KS: Lyon County – A paper trail to safe voting LINK
KY: Webster County clerk opposes election system change LINK
MS: Itawamba County – More [DRE] voting machines requested LINK
NV: County officials ask Nevada legislators for election-law changes LINK
OH: Oh My Ohio: Cuyahoga County Election Director Resigns! New SoS Requests Audit of Blackwell, Shredded Documents! LINK
OH: No changes are expected, state official says LINK
OH: Elections not keeping up with the times LINK
OH: Cuyahoga County – Glitch hits Cuyahoga County election…again LINK
PA: Cambria County – Broken water pipe soaks voting screens LINK
TX: Anderson County — Commissioner’s Election Will Be Heard Again LINK
**”Daily Voting News” is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports each day concerning issues related to election and voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in “Daily Voting News” may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or BradBlog.Com**
As related by John Bonifaz of Demos and the National Voting Rights Institute, in a blog on BradBlog.Com, “[Yesterday], Congressman Rush Holt introduced H.R. 811, a bill trumpeted as requiring ‘a voter-verified permanent paper ballot.’ But before we all jump on this train as the new guarantee that our votes will be properly counted in future elections, we ought to beware of the warning flag. A paper trail from DRE (Direct Recording Electronic, usually touch-screen) machines cannot protect the integrity of our elections.” And “the Holt bill tries to say it is requiring a paper ballot even for DREs, but, in the end, a DRE ‘paper ballot’ is nothing more than a paper trail, which requires voters to verify their votes after they have cast them in the DRE machines. Studies show that most voters will not spend the time to verify their votes after casting them into DRE machines. Thus, the ‘voter-verified paper ballot’ is a fiction when it comes to DREs.”
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Maybe I should have posted this here, so I’ll link to it.
https://bradblog.com/?p=4129#comment-174239
Yeah I seen it KBE, I figured BRAD would have posted it by now, maybe he imbibed too much last night or something and he’s slow on the draw today 🙂
Hey, Floridiot, I dunno, but when a man posts from “on the road” or somesuch, I have to assume that Jack Kerouac served as one of his advisors at some point. But Jack had his scroll of paper that wasn’t due until much later, while I assume Brad doesn’t have a shoephone with broadband access. Just a guess. Not that I have anything against overimbibing, or anything like that. Cheers from Prague!
Yeah Czaragorn, but “Jack” had a little more than a social drinking problem
I’m sure Brad isn’t that bad
It was a joke, but now I’m a little worried, you know how us ‘mother hens’ are 😉