Ohio has also just found the same thing with their e-voting machines -- totally unreliable. I've always wondered why it was only the Republicans who fought every mandate to have a paper-trail. Actually, I don't need to wonder why -- I already know.

This is the best news I have heard all day! All week! all month!

California's already done this as well. Secretary of State is requiring only machines that create a paper record.

Excellent!

Let's immediately fall back to punch card voting. It makes it easy on the struggling and whiny Democrats; they will not have to make up new excuses for why they always lose.

Can't beat the classics!

"punch card voting"

Worked at Tektite II in 1970.
I punched the cards.


No chads at all.



Vern is, as always, irrelevantly late, yet more intellectually challenging than Grendel, which begs the question; Why not suicide?

Funny
I have a friend with 45 patents who never got what a cat saw trivially.

Worked at Tektite II in 1970. I punched the cards.

Posted by Zatoichi at 2007-12-18 09:54 PM | Reply |

Yes, they work. That's why Dems hate them so much.

They work

They work

Posted by vernon

My old diving buddy Sylvia Earle suffered from zero hanging chads, and invented a culture of KICK ASS.


In the intervening decades the coral died, however.

And junk 'em they should. No electronic voting machine will ever be hacker-proof. And as long as the hackers are on the side of bad guys, no electronic election will ever be reliable.

"No electronic voting machine will ever be hacker-proof."

Neither will any paper voting system.

"Worked at Tektite II in 1970. "

Didn't Scott Carpenter spend some time there?

Neither will any paper voting system.

No, you can always stuff ballot boxes and have dead people vote. But it takes an army of people to pull it off, and armies talk. And the army would have to be here, in America.

With electronic systems, one person with a virus can rig the entire election from anywhere on the planet.

I'll take the paper ballots please.

JUSTSOMEGUY had a funny bumper sticker a few years ago. It said

"Don't blame me. I voted the way Diebold said I did."

Norm -- I'm w/ you. As tough as they might be to get used to, the old lever voting machines in NYS have a good reputation for reliabiliry. They are inspected and tested. Why should NYS give up that working system for something less reliable?

reliability.

"As tough as they might be to get used to, the old lever voting machines in NYS have a good reputation for reliabiliry. They are inspected and tested. Why should NYS give up that working system for something less reliable?"

Actually those aren't that hard to manipulate, either. The main problem I'd have with them, though, is a lack of a verifiable audit trail that is produced by paper ballots. All you get with the lever machines is a counter that you read off the back (I got to do that one year when I did volunteer work for one of the media organizations that sent people to the polls to call in the vote results.)

We (the people) win