Rocking the voting machines Blast college media!

[Melissa G]

I've been noticing several college newspapers paying attention to the FraWd issue. Perhaps we should turn to academia for the beginning momentum of our revolution.
Is someone up to creating a college newspaper media blaster?
Universities protests were much of what put the Vietnam war out of business.



Rocking the voting machines
By Patrick Davis - The Daily Iowan
Published: Tuesday, May 3, 2005
Article Tools: Page 1 of 1

Johnson County voters may cast ballots on touch screens, and election officials may tabulate results via Internet as early as the fall elections.

Those are some of the options vendors offered the Johnson County Board of Supervisors at a Monday sales show, which will continue through today at the county fairgrounds. Disability-friendly machines and high-speed tabulation devices were some of the other options supervisors considered.

"We absolutely need to have new equipment," said Sally Stutsman, the chairwoman of the supervisors. "The current machines are old enough that it is hard to get replacement parts."

The supervisors are planning to replace the current 21-year-old machines before September, in time for upcoming School Board and City Council elections.

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" must be a top priority; it should be a national requirement," he said.
Paper is the most reliable source in the case of equipment failure or voting irregularities, he said.