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CT Pull Lever Voting Machines from Elections

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brooklynite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Jul-30-07 03:56 PM
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CT Pull Lever Voting Machines from Elections
Source: AP

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Lever voting machines that voters have used since the 1920s to elect officeholders in Connecticut are history.

Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal told municipal elections officials today that towns and cities may no longer use the lever machines in primaries set for September Eleventh, ending their use.

They will be replaced with optical scan voting machines that officials say provide a reliable paper trail.

...snip...

In addition, a state law enacted this year requires recounts in 10 percent of voting precincts statewide to confirm that the new voting technology works. Bysiewicz says there is no way to comply with state law using the lever machines.

Read more: http://www.wcbs880.com/pages/735231.php?contentType=4&c...

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   Scared the betrayed citizens will rise up?  aquart   Jul-30-07 04:00 PM   #1 
   That's how we got the LAST set...  brooklynite   Jul-30-07 04:50 PM   #2 
   hear, hear  whrab   Jul-31-07 01:37 PM   #7 
   I love our AG Blumenthal. He is a staunch pro choice and pro consumer  CTyankee   Jul-30-07 05:05 PM   #3 
   How I miss New York  HockeyMom   Jul-31-07 12:03 PM   #4 
   Do what Ann Coulter did  MetaTrope   Jul-31-07 12:10 PM   #5 
   check out the front page of CNN online right now...  flying_wahini   Jul-31-07 01:03 PM   #6 
      These are opti-scan machines with paper trails...  Alexander   Jul-31-07 01:39 PM   #8 
 
aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Mon Jul-30-07 04:00 PM
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1. Scared the betrayed citizens will rise up?
Edited on Mon Jul-30-07 04:01 PM by aquart
Can NY buy those lever machines as back up to our own? LOVE THE LEVERS!

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brooklynite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Jul-30-07 04:50 PM
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2. That's how we got the LAST set...
The lever machines we're using in NY were purchased from Florida when they retired them in favor of the state of the art Votomatic punch-card machines.....

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adamuu Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-31-07 01:37 PM
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7. hear, hear
What, are we so far advanced that we don't know how to do things MECHANICALLY anymore? Its all gotta be electronic... why, again?

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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Jul-30-07 05:05 PM
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3. I love our AG Blumenthal. He is a staunch pro choice and pro consumer
AG, always working for the people of CT. I wish he had run for governor as Jodi Rell is pretty much a nothing. He certainly has many supporters statewide and money (his wife's family owns the Empire State Building and they are also staunch supporters of liberal causes, including Planned Parenthood. I love their whole family.

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HockeyMom (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-31-07 12:03 PM
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4. How I miss New York
Don't know what the hell I am going to do here in Florida now. It really worries me that my vote will not be counted.

Maybe I will plan a trip to NY to visit my kids around election time. Absentee ballot?????

Is Steve Levy still fighting the scraping of the lever machines? I sure hope so.

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MetaTrope (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-31-07 12:10 PM
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5. Do what Ann Coulter did
She lives in New York, but illegally voted in Florida. Maybe some nice FBI man will speak out in your favor, too.

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flying_wahini Donating Member (841 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-31-07 01:03 PM
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6. check out the front page of CNN online right now...
Video called 'hackers crack voting machines in seconds"

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Alexander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-31-07 01:39 PM
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8. These are opti-scan machines with paper trails...
A bit more difficult to crack than DREs.

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