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June 15, 2004
| League of Women Voters Refutes AP

Received this today from the League of Women Voters … working to find the AP story:

STATEMENT BY LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE U.S. ON VOTING MACHINES

“Today’s Associated Press story entitled “League of Women Voters Drops Support of Paperless Voting Machines” is misleading.

The LWVUS has just concluded its 46th biennial national convention. The delegate body in attendance, representing 47 states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands, adopted a resolution that revises the LWVUS stance on voting machines.

The new resolution reads, “In order to ensure integrity and voter confidence in elections, the LWVUS supports the implementation of voting systems and procedures that are: secure, accurate, recountable, and accessible.”

The League continues to support voting systems that are well-managed and meet the above four criteria, including electronic voting systems. Each voting system should be looked at on a case-by-case basis to ensure that it meets each of these four criteria and that the operational and management systems supporting it will be well-run.”



Posted by Alan at June 15, 2004 01:38 PM | TrackBack
Comments

I challenge any liberal that is against Electronic Voting Machines because they believe you can not make a bug free program.

I challenge any liberal by the fact that I myself can program a bug free, typo free, computer voting program.

Liberals have many gripes about Electronic Voting Machines. It is a shame that they are 100% wrong. It is a shame that computer programmers the nation wide are on this ‘Can’t make a bug free program’ idiot logic. It makes no sense because if I can do it.. anyone can.

The disaster in California with Dibold was only due to a program that was never tested or Q/Aed.

Posted by: Jeff MacMillan at June 16, 2004 02:04 PM

The best way to keep voting fair is to keep it simple stupid. All most people want with electronic voting is that a paper trail be kept for verification.

Posted by: Dream at June 17, 2004 12:48 AM

If you truly believe that an electronic voting system can be reliable without a paper trail to recount/verify totals, please explain how you could assure all votes were recorded before a power interruption.
Don’t assume that simultaneous recording of the vote to ANY file (wherever located and however constructed) is an answer. If an unscrupulous programmer wished to control the election results by altering votes, it could also be done to any electronic audit trail.
Harms01

Posted by: Harms01 at June 17, 2004 03:48 PM

Elections in a democracy are too important to trust to closed source code in a black box. This is not a Liberals vs Conservatives issue. Don’t even try. Look to India if you want to see how to do high tech elections. Open code, simple and cheap devices that are well understood, designed so even illiterates are able to use the system!

Posted by: Voivod at June 19, 2004 03:19 AM

Challenge electronic voting machines without paper trails? If you don’t, you are naive at best, just plain stupid at worst. I know, you are a friend of THIS Wally O’Dell: Diebold’s current CEO Walden “Wally” O’Dell, reside in Columbus’ northwest suburb Upper Arlington. O’Dell is on record stating that he is “committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President” this year.

Posted by: Indie2004 at June 21, 2004 02:10 PM

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