10 counties advised to use voting machines, but have paper ballots on hand

[Ediacara]

10 counties advised to use voting machines, but have paper ballots on hand

Published 4:35 pm PDT Wednesday, April 28, 2004
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Ten counties that use thousands of touch-screen voting machines will be able to use them this fall but only if they provide alternative paper ballots in each precinct, a state advisory committee recommended Wednesday.

The committee had considered banning touch-screen voting in the 10 counties, but agreed 7-0 on a compromise that allows county registrars of voters to use paperless electronic voting machines with numerous conditions.

Among them: extra security measures to minimize possibilities of hacking, no wireless or Internet connections on machines and no last-minute software changes.

More at the Sacramento Bee

[hang a left]

1. OMG

I thought that these machines were gonna get 86ed.

[slinkerwink]

2. same here too! this is an outrage!

[aquart]

3. This is a total sell out. Complete betrayal.

I suppose California is simply going to sit and take it.

And why am I not even a little surprised.

California to George W. Bush.

[truthisfreedom]

4. they left out the most important condition of all, that the votes tallied

using the touch-screen vote manipulation machines be compared with the written ballots for deviation from statisitical similarity.

[AP]

5. Passing the buck to the counties. CA'ians now must take the fight to

the counties.

[dusty64]

6. This is BULLSHIT!

What is the political makeup of this committee? Not that it matters much anymore.