Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
In his article, “Electric Boogaloo”, Art Levine begins:
For most political controversies, progressives don’t need a scorecard to tell the good guys apart from the bad. One would expect that simple dynamic to apply to electronic voting reform, which Democrats have pledged to address during this Congress. But in fact, the thorny issue of voting machines, in the context of a shared desire for a fair, accurate election in 2008 (following one infamous election meltdown after another during the last few cycles), has rendered the fault lines in the debate over reform anything but straight and clear. Simply put, with Democratic control of Congress making meaningful progressive election reform a possibility for the first time in years, the “good guys” are busy battling each other.
That, and today’s other notable voting news stories, all linked below…
It’s good guys vs. good guys in the complicated legislative fight over regulating voting machines. LINK
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John, you quoted Levine as saying:
Mr. Levine should try to simplify matters 😉 … good guys v good guys is too complicated.
But onward to the details anyway (everyone else is). The article you linked to says:
So … which good guys are for this and which good guys are against this?
Things are getting “curiouser and curiouser”.
Dredd,
The bill does not ban the use of DREs it only puts a printer on them to print a voter verified paper audit trail. The bill now calls these paper ballots which is disingenuous because they are not required to be counted as the legal count.
The “good guys” are calling for a ban on DREs and the use of a paper ballot that is the ballot that is counted all the time.
I am one of the good guys 🙂