BBV: Opponents of change a threat to electronic voting

[GregD]

Opponents of change a threat to electronic voting
By Mike Langberg
Mercury News

Fear of change is a universal human emotion, and it often erupts when new technology comes along to alter an established and comfortable way of doing things.

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``Will Your Vote Count in the Next Election? Maybe not! How will we even know?,'' screams the home page of Verified Voting (www.verifiedvoting.org), founded by David L. Dill, a professor of computer science at Stanford University.

``Paperless electronic voting systems are failing us. Worse yet, resistance from the elections official community is astonishing!,'' the page breathlessly continues. ``Our democracy is at stake and the time for action is now!''

Whoa there.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7945076.htm


Ok, so now we are fear mongers, whackos, and conspiracy theorists...

Hmmm - wonder if he noticed the abundance of recent election failures: http://www.verifiedvoting.org/article.asp?id=997

How about a few of you good folks tell this guy the reality of these beasts?

Thanks