Voting Technology Violates Texas Constitution - by David Van Os

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DVO blog entry on his site
Now let's take a look at the Texas Constitution.

Article 6, Section 2 states:

"The privilege of free suffrage shall be protected by laws regulating elections and prohibiting under adequate penalties all undue influence in elections from power, bribery, tumult, or other improper practices."

Article 6, Section 4 states:

"In all elections by the people, the vote shall be by ballot, and the Legislature shall provide for the numbering of tickets and make such other regulations as may be necessary to detect and punish fraud and preserve the purity of the ballot box."

Now you tell me. How in the world can a system prohibit undue influence in elections from power, bribery, tumult, or other improper practices when there is no way to verify whether the things that are going on inside the machine are even recording the votes as the voters intend? How in the world can the purity of the ballot box be preserved when even the voter who cast the ballot has no way of knowing what actually got recorded on his ballot in the interior of the machine? Clearly, it can't, and it can't.

These machines clearly violate the Texas Constitution. Full post on his site

David made this post in 2005 and it's making appearances in lots of blogs you read.

Sonia

[sonias]

1. Blogs are on the march

DailyKos Diary
Paperless Voting to be Declared Unconstitutional by Tomtech
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/10/8312/41314
(David makes a lot of comments in the thread)

BurntOrangeReport
David Van Os is a breath of fresh air! by Tomtech
http://www.burntorangereport.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=640

Sonia

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2. It's great to have an advocate like David on our side! (K & R)