"I see electronic voting machines as undermining democracies,"......(Dean)

[cthrumatrix]

'A Massive Experiment' In Voting
In D.C. Area and Across Nation, Touch-Screen Machines Face Biggest Test

By Robert MacMillan
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Thursday, September 23, 2004; 2:25 PM

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Many have championed "direct recording electronic" voting as the only replacement to the antiquated systems that spawned disasters such as the 2000 Florida presidential election voting debacle, but some predict that they will punch a gaping hole in the nation's democratic fabric.

"I see electronic voting machines as undermining democracies," said former Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. "What could happen is an election with less credibility than the presidential election in 2000 had."

Some voting machine makers already are testing versions of their machines with printers attached, but that could add hundreds of dollars to the cost of the hardware. State and local governments have already spent millions of dollars on computerized voting machines, and do not relish shelling out more cash. Local elections boards say that even if they wanted to, they can't do it in time for this election because the machines would have to undergo a new round of federal and state certification.


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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39102-20...


Howard Dean knows the downside and dangers of e-voting...Bev Harris showed him how to hack a computer in 90 sec on MSNBC

[ArkDem]

1. He is right. Technology will be the end of us all!