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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Reported on by a left-winger

[Anonymous Coward]

Michael should specify that he is a "left-winger" commenting on supposed "right-winger" conspiracy theories. Maybe they are conspiracy theories - maybe they aren't but in the interest of "full disclosure" Michael needs to declare his bias.

Secondly, this whole push for the digital voting or e-voting is due to the fact that Gore had such a hissy fit in Florida. What a bunch of nonsense that was. So, now that people are trying to alleviate that problem they are accused of being right-wingers. Granted there needs to be an audit trail - no one would disagree with that, and there do seem to be obvious problems with the systems that have been proposed.

It's a difficult issue and needs to be addressed by honest patriots on both sides instead of polarizing the issue by refering to "right-wingers".

To some people, almost everyone is a "right- winger". Trust them. They know better than the rest of us! :-0

Re:What about dust and grease?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, they will obviously have to prevent blacks from voting. We don't want to get fried chicken grease and sticky watermelon juice all over everything, now do we!

Conspiracy Theory?

[the_skywise]

Yes, much easier for left-wingers to believe that right-wingers "stole" the election than that people don't like their position.

Re:Los Alamos

[MisterFancypants]

Stop lying you dicksucker.

Re:No, not conspiracy theories.

[MoronBob]

Please explain to me how giving millions of illegal aliens a drivers license and the right to vote is not a conspiracy to effect the outcome of elections?