Surprise: Jeb Bu$h Not Concerned About Electronic Voting

[Zorra]

IMO, this is a pretty good indicator that evoting machines will be used to fix the election in Florida.

WASHINGTON - A computer science expert criticized electronic voting systems planned for the November election as highly vulnerable and flawed, saying on Wednesday a backup paper system is the only short-term solution to avoid another disputed presidential election.

"On a spectrum of terrible to very good, we are sitting at terrible," Aviel D. Rubin, a computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University, told the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. "Not only have the vendors not implemented security safeguards that are possible, they have not even correctly implemented the ones that are easy."
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Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told reporters no printers for making receipts have been manufactured for the electronic voting machines in his state, but he suggested he is not concerned about using the machines in November.

"I'm afraid a lot of the concerns about this are really to try to create a cloud of controversy during the election to motivate people to vote and there's got to be a better way to do that," Bush said. "You can talk about issues and ideas, maybe, instead of scaring people."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=3&u=/ap/20040505/ap_on_go_ot/electronic_voting

US Map with states using evoting machines.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040504/480/nyet25205041503

[SideshowScott]

1. What a shocker..NOT

The Bush's dont care about elections..Just Power..With every passing day it looks more and more that we are under a dictatorship with the GOP's blessing

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. The Florida legislature made Jeb god last year

didn't you hear?

Whatever he says is the last word in this state. But between this and the Michael Moore crap today, Jeb is starting to act a little desperate.

Hey Jeb? The printers haven't been manufactured? Ah excuse me? Well darn what ashame. Maybe we should just go back to pencil and paper? It's simple and cheap. So what if it takes a week to do a hand count? I think the American people will be patient if it's for something as important as an election.