Maryland E-Voting Confrontation: Governor Wants Paper Ballots in November
The state’s governor and paper-ballot advocate is Republican Bob Ehrlich; the people who want to stick with the troubled e-voting systems, which had significant problems (link is to one blogger’s detailed in-person observations; HT Techdirt) in Maryland’s most recent primary, are Democrats.
Those who believe e-voting can still be used and trusted have to pretend that the Princeton IT study, which demonstrated that an easily installed virus can alter vote totals without being detected, and e-voting vendor Diebold’s incredibly weak response to it don’t exist. Oh, and besides that, you can get into the voting machine with a hotel mini-bar key.
This ought to disabuse anyone that the credibility and integrity, or lack thereof, of e-voting is a partisan issue, but it probably won’t.
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UPDATE: RG Combs notes a Colorado judge acknowledging that E-voting doesn’t work well, but deciding that for November they’re stuck with it.
Thanks for posting this. For me no issue is more important than the integrity of the vote counts.
Comment by Ohio 2nd — September 25, 2006 @ 10:43 am
Paper ballots…
Bizzyblog noted that concern about electronic voting machines cuts across party lines, citing Maryland as the latest example: The state?s governor and paper-ballot advocate is Republican Bob Ehrlich; the people who want to stick with the troubled ……
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