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."

Comments

Touch screens had so much potential.

[Anonymous Coward]

Imagine the fun you could have selecting a president by poking a picture in its belly, and being rewarded with a Pilsbury-esque "Tee hee! Thanks for voting for me!"

Of course....

[southpolesammy]

the ultimate irony would be if the Los Alamos council used the Sequoia voting system to take the vote....

They VOTED...

[Anonymous Coward]

...to change the way they vote? Only in geek county would you have recursive voting.

Not even a good conspiracy theory

[bee]

Man, all these conspiracy theories going around about the right wing taking over the world just suck. They don't even have any of the standard conspiracy theory elements:

• The complicity, at the very least, of the Pope
  
• Evidence that the moon landings were faked
  
• Involves the real people behind JFK's assassination
  
• the Illuminati
  
• black helicopters
  
• space aliens
  
• the Men in Black
  
• Area 51
  

and plenty more-- I'm sure you can come up with more than me.

Re:Right wing?

[Anonymous Coward]

I suppose that's just as crazy as calling Fox news left-wing. :)

Re:Right wing?

[Gonzodoggy]

I think this is all a Vast Left Wing Conspiracy perpetrated by the unholy alliance of PETA and KFC, created to spread MS-like FUD (F**ked-Up-Devices) so that people have even less of a clue as to what's happening in the world than they already do.