Los Alamos Reconsiders Touch Screen Voting

goombah99 writes "Los Alamos county, which boasts the highest geek PhD per capita in the world and considerable clout in secure computing, has voted to rescind its previous plans to purchase Touch Screen voting systems and will ask the New Mexico's secretary of state to address its concerns regarding an imminent state-wide purchase. They may get forced by the Clerk's office to use them anyway if the state makes its bulk purchase of Sequoia AvcEdge touch screen systems with a Windows-based WinEDS database. The Los Alamos position is welcome news since it casts the rejection of these systems in a more sober light; widespread right-wing conspiracy theories have done great harm by galvanizing election officials to be dismissive of re-opening their consideration of the issue. What won the day was convincing the county they had until 2006 to comply with HAVA, and that better machines with voter verifiable audit trails and even open source, were on the way. There is also more in the local newspapers."

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Pffftt

[Krach42]

New Mexico isn't even a state in the US. :P

Simple Solution

[vandan]

All we need is a bunch of left-wing lunies to bomb the living christ out of the place for, say, six months. I suspect regime change will be easy. Clearly the Americans have had enough of their brutal dictator, and will welcome their terrorists ... er ... liberators with open arms.

Bring democracy to the world, my arse! Can't even hold a valid election in your own fucking backyard...