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LWV Reverses Electronic Voting Machine Stance

Posted by michael on from the rabble-rousing dept.

sirshannon writes "Apparently caving to pressure from Slashdot readers (or maybe it was all their peeved members), The League of Women Voters rescinded its support of paperless voting machines on Monday."

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  1. RTFA, you insensitive clod! by JohnQPublic · · Score: 5, Informative

    (or maybe it was all their peeved members)

    What part of the following don't you understand?

    The League of Women Voters rescinded its support of paperless voting machines on Monday after hundreds of angry members voiced concern that paper ballots were the only way to safeguard elections from fraud, hackers or computer malfunctions. About 800 delegates who attended the nonpartisan league's biennial convention in Washington voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution that supports "voting systems and procedures that are secure, accurate, recountable and accessible."
    ...
    E-voting critics who attended the five-day convention, which ends Tuesday, said the league's revision was welcome -- if not overdue. "My initial reaction is incredible joy and relief," said computer scientist Barbara Simons, 63, past president of the Association for Computing Machinery and a league member from a chapter in Palo Alto, Calif. "This issue was threatening to split the league apart.... The league now has a position that I feel very comfortable supporting."

    Whaddaya know, this "democracy" stuff works!