BBV: Senators request to suspend e-voting (CA)

[RedEagle]

From Susan Marie Weber:


http://www.trivalleyherald.com/cda/article/print/0,1674,86%257E10669%257E2010266,00.html
Tri-Valley Herald


Senators request to suspend e-voting
Equipment malfunctions are behind senators' move to temporarily halt use
By Ian Hoffman
STAFF WRITER


Thursday, March 11, 2004 - The state Senate's elections leaders are expected to call today on Secretary of State Kevin Shelley to suspend use of touchscreen voting machines for November.

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Despite widespread acceptance of touchscreen voting in the March 2 primary, thousands of voters in three of the state's largest counties re- ceived the wrong ballot or were turned away from the polls by voting-system failures.

Senate Majority Leader Don Perata, D-Oakland, and Sen. Ross Johnson, R-Irvine, the chairman and vice chairman of the Elections and Reapportionment Committee, say the 2004 election is too important to rely on faulty e-voting machines in November.

If Shelley declines their request to decertify touchscreen machines statewide, the senators say they will sponsor legislation denying use of the machines in California.

"I think everyone's aware of the magnitude of the issue," said Perata spokesman Tom Martinez. "They're even more aware of the magnitutde of the problems in last week's election. And they don't want California to be the Florida of 2004."


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(Not everyone is on board with this, of course. Matter of fact, should not use these machines in 2004)

[TrogL]

1. Heeeeeeeeee-waccckkkk

Somebody finally got it right.

Does anybody know the procedure for notifying the UN that election monitors are required in a country? The United States sounds like a perfect candidate.

I can make a few phone calls.

[arcane1]

3. there is no better candidate at this point

though getting the UN would surely tip us into civil chaos, when the anti-UN knuckle-draggers find out.. :)

[proud patriot]

2. Fingers crossed our work in Cali will pay off

:-)