SOME IN NEW YORK CONTINUE TO RESIST

[Bill Bored]

While some are correctly concerned about DREs, others see the bigger picture.


(No relation to Professor Steve Freeman but...)

Concerns remain about electronic voting

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Six area residents spoke to discuss the merits of different types of voting machines - primarily how susceptible electronic machines are to fraud, as opposed to the current mechanical lever machines, which they argued are near impossible to tamper with.

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"The beginning of the (resolution) says you are doing this because you want honest, observable and easily verifiable public elections," said Andrea Novick, an attorney from Rhinebeck. "All of that is fantastic, but you cannot get honest, observable and easily verifiable public elections on an optical scanner. It's not possible because it's a computer."

Novick argued that it would be impossible to examine the machines to find out how the software had been programmed to count the vote because the manufacturers have "trade secret proprietary right to the information." In essence, she said, that means that both candidates and voters are subject to secret vote counts.

"In the United States of America, we have gone to secret vote counts in 48 of 50 states," Novick said. "There is nothing more un-American and anti-Democratic than a secret vote count."

Novick said that the only two states in the country that have not gone to a system where the vote count is secret are New York and Oklahoma. On that basis, Novick implored the Legislature not to approve the use of electronic systems.

http://www.dailyfreeman.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19270862&BRD=1769&PAG=461&dept_id=74969&rfi=6

[Fredda Weinberg]

1. which they argued are near impossible to tamper with. ... there goes

their credibility.

[Bill Bored]

2. It's all relative.

Do I really have to cite Harri Hursti, the University of CT, AND the Ohio EVEREST studies? Or should I just take YOUR word that ballot scanners are infallible? :rofl:

[Wilms]

3. So HAVA doesn't say you have to buy e-voting afterall.

You'd think more people would have figured that.