Electronic voting draws protest

[kster]

This is one of the fastest way to get our kids out of Iraq, Anti secret vote count protests. Get rid of the secret vote count machines so that we can have a legitimate government in 06, that gives a damn. Thanks Wilms for posting, this is what needs to be done. Fight Fight! :applause: :applause:

Posted by Wilms:

Electronic voting draws protest

(((((((((Marchers tell state board they don't want private companies counting the ballots)))))))))

By JAMES M. ODATO, Capitol bureau
First published: Wednesday, October 12, 2005

ALBANY -- Two dozen people upset that New York officials may buy electronic voting machines confronted the state Board of Elections on Tuesday and won the unprecedented right to address the commissioners.

Neil W. Kelleher, chairman of the board, allowed comments from demonstrators, some holding signs and marching into the meeting room straight from a small rally outside the board's offices. All promoted paper ballot machines.

"We don't want our elections run by private companies," said Barbara Murphy of Clifton Park. Her town is one of the few statewide using direct recording electronic machines, also know as DREs, that allow touch screen voting.

The system is made by Sequoia Voting Systems, one of the powerhouse election-machine companies promoting DREs in New York. Murphy and other members of a campaign against electronic machines said at the board meeting that manufacturers are steering county elections commissioners toward DREs and away from optical scanners that read paper ballots.

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http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=4079...

[onthebench]

1. Beware of the power of Sequoia

Sequoia has deep roots in New York State. They have very strong lobby efforts there. They have or had (not sure anymore) manufacturing in NY state. They have the full face DRE which is what the voters are used to in that state.

Maybe we should have the citizen's vote on the voting method. But what way to vote?

[Ellipsis]

2. and a KICK for kster.

Cuz your tenacious.

:thumbsup:

[kster]

4. Just trying to

keep the voting machine makers and our government from hypnotizing us into believing the voting machines are safe to use. Saying "secret vote counts" and "private companies counting the ballots" gets the publics attention and will get us to PBHC a lot faster, all the other debating at this point clouds the issue.

[Bill Bored]

3. Vive la resistance! nt

[Land Shark]

5. Yo!

[kster]

6. I'm

learning.

[Bill Bored]

7. Oh, and here's a working link:

<http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=407961&category=STATE&BCCode=&newsdate=10/12/2005>