Los Alamos Reconsiders Touch Screen Voting

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Los Alamos Reconsiders Touch Screen Voting

Posted by michael on Friday November 21, 2003 @03:56AM from the narrowly-avoided dept.

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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Since you brought it up. by HomerJayS · 2003-11-21 04:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I know this'll be modded down as off topic, but.. Why is it that if the US maintains cordial relationships with oppressive governments, it is facilitating tyrants. While at the same time, if the US takes a hard-line against a tyranical government, it is being unilateral and overstepping its bounds?
Re:Oh you poor thing... by BillFarber · 2003-11-21 04:51 · Score: 0, Offtopic

So you would rather have us be screwed by tax-the-poor-give-back-to-the-rich Republicans
Do you have an example of the poor being taxed by the federal governemt?
One last thing, I feel so bad for you knowing that the average American makes half of the $50,000 that you can hardly live on?
A family of four earning approx. $25k, pays NO income tax, and probably gets money from the Earned Income Tax Credit.
Re:Oh you poor thing... by workindev · 2003-11-21 05:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

So you would rather have us be screwed by tax-the-poor-give-back-to-the-rich Republicans

I know this is hard for you to comprehend, but the poor can't give anything back to the "rich republicans" because they don't pay any taxes in the first place. Here are the actual US Treasury figures. The bottom 50% of tax payers (those making less than $27,600 per year) pay less than 4% of the total tax base. So the converse means that the "rich" 50% (those making more than $27,600 per year) pay 96% of all taxes, and half the country is riding on their coattails.