Lackwanna County (PA) votes to scrap Diebold machines...

[BumRushDaShow]

Was scanning around on some of the PA election news sites and happened to see this ditty on the main page of this site: http://www.votepa.us/

March 4, 2008
BREAKING NEWS -- 3:17 PM

Lackwanna County Commissioners have voted to scrap the plan of purchasing Diebold/Premier paperless touchscreens and are instead going with ES&S M100 optical scanners and AutoMARK ballot markers for accessibility!

More to Follow.

I haven't been keeping track of who (if anyone) is using Diebold machines in PA but I know that Philly hasn't been - it uses Danaher 1242 machines, which are not really "touch screen" (IMHO) but are more like "touch pad" with raised buttons. They produce a printout, although I saw some blips questioning verification of a recount on a machine since there is no one-to-one record for each vote apparently. Funny but I miss those old clunky lever machines (used for 60 years...lol).

Any PA DUers out there in counties/municipalities with Diebold machines?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

1. ahhh so they are going to buy Chuck Hagels machines eh?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

2. I still vote on the "clunky lever machine".....and I love it too!

[Yellow Horse]

3. Kick & R

:kick:

[demodonkey]

4. 16 Counties and 894,752 voters use paperless Diebold machines in Pennsylvania...

...and that's using the November 2007 registration statistics (there will be LOTS more new voters registered this year I am sure!)

Thank you for posting this.

Here are some links to followup information on the story (we are posting our VotePA's site soon.)
http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19359763&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=415898&rfi=15
http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19364503&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=415898&rfi=6

Fayette County also recently voted NOT to purchase more paperless machines, but instead to buy scanners:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/dailycourier/news/s_551193.html

We have an ongoing discussion group about voting machines and election integrity in Pennsylvania:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VotePA/

Please join us!

Marybeth Kuznik
Director, VotePA
http://www.VotePA.us