talk about a day late & 500bil short - Florida Shifting to Voting System With Paper Trail...

[bridgit]

'DELRAY BEACH, Fla., Feb. 1 — Gov. Charlie Crist announced plans on Thursday to abandon the touch-screen voting machines that many of Florida’s counties installed after the disputed 2000 presidential election. The state will instead adopt a system of casting paper ballots counted by scanning machines in time for the 2008 presidential election.

Voting experts said Florida’s move, coupled with new federal voting legislation expected to pass this year, could be the death knell for the paperless electronic touch-screen machines. If as expected the Florida Legislature approves the $32.5 million cost of the change, it would be the nation’s biggest repudiation yet of touch-screen voting, which was widely embraced after the 2000 recount as a state-of-the-art means of restoring confidence that every vote would count.

Several counties around the country, including Cuyahoga in Ohio and Sarasota in Florida, are moving toward exchanging touch-screen machines for ones that provide a paper trail. But Florida could become the first state that invested heavily in the recent rush to touch screens to reject them so sweepingly.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/us/02voting.html?ex=1328072400&en=2f2d1e72d3a83c50&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

[BlooInBloo]

1. Good.

[graywarrior]

2. I'm sure Christine Jennings is happy.

[bridgit]

3. now gray, you moved down there right...

cause i forget, hubby is supposed to fly out for 6-8 weeks site training in Tampa sometime next couple weeks :hi:

[graywarrior]

6. Tell him to come visit.

Tampa is cooler than Sarasota. He can tune into WMNF and forget he's in a red state.

[BeFree]

4. Why the switch?

Because people raised hell. If they hadn't raised hell about their votes being *lost* the politicians wouldn't have done a damn thing.

Now it's everyone else's chance to save your vote from being lost. Are ya gonna raise hell, or are ya gonna let it slide?

[teryang]

5. Good move!

it's about time! Crist is a lawyer. He knows that the evoting technology rendered florida election laws meaningless.