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Florida Ruling May Lead To E-voting Paper Trail

Posted by timothy on from the plain-language-of-the-law dept.

dorkus123 points out this Palm Beach Post story which begins "An administrative law judge over-ruled an administrative decision Friday that the 15 counties that use touch-screen voting systems must be able to perform manual recounts in extremely close elections." Prior to this, counties using touch-screen voting were exempt from a requirement requiring that certified voting machines be amenable to manual recounts. wierzpio adds a link to the AP's similar story.

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  1. The quote in the summary, translated into English: by CedgeS · · Score: 4, Informative

    An administrative law judge over-ruled an administrative decision Friday. The 15 counties that use touch-screen voting systems must be able to perform manual recounts in extremely close elections.

  2. Re:bull by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    And if you REALLY want to cheat the system you can vote twice...
    http://www.nydailynews.com/08-22-2004/fr ont/story/ 224449p-192807c.html
    "Some 46,000 New Yorkers are registered to vote in both the city and Florida, a shocking finding that exposes both states to potential abuses that could alter the outcome of elections, a Daily News investigation shows." ...
    "The News' investigation also found:

    # Of the 46,000 registered in both states, 68% are Democrats, 12% are Republicans and 16% didn't claim a party.

    # Nearly 1,700 of those registered in both states requested that absentee ballots be mailed to their home in the other state, where they are also registered. But that doesn't raise red flags with officials in either place."

  3. International observers to monitor US elections by MSBob · · Score: 5, Informative
    One of the most interesting developments in this election campaign that was completely "overlooked" by mainstream US media is the fact that for the first time in history, US presidential elections will be monitored by international observes.

    How did America get to the point where the fear of rigged elections (normally something reserved for so called "rogue states") is so real that many feel the neat to bring in overseers from abroad? Is it really ture that you always become what you hate?

    --
    Your pizza just the way you ought to have it.
    1. Re:International observers to monitor US elections by intnsred · · Score: 3, Informative

      How did America get to the point where the fear of rigged elections (normally something reserved for so called "rogue states") is so real that many feel the neat to bring in overseers from abroad?

      We got there by having the Republican party repeatedly cook and subvert our electoral system.

      Does the name Richard "Tricky Dick" Nixon ring a bell?! Read some good histories of the "Watergate era" -- he did far, far more than "just" break into the Watergate Hotel where the Democratic Party HQ was located.

      How about Ronald Reagan keeping the US embassy hostages held by Iran locked up to prevent Jimmy Carter's "October Surprise"? That was a blatant rigging of an election.

      Carter was close to doing an "arms for hostages" deal with Iran to bring back the hostages in October. Reagan sent Bush and others to Paris to negotiate a bigger "arms for hostages" deal with the Iranians. The Iranians took the better offer -- Reagan/Bush's.

      Who says so? Former US CIA agents, French intelligence reports, Russian (Soviet era) intelligence, Jimmy Carter himself admitted that he heard many rumors about such a deal but that he was powerless to do anthing, and to top it off, the now-retired, former Iranian president candidly states that he did do the deal!

      Now, for those that can't keep score, that's 2 rigged elections since 1972.

      Add to that the 2000 election that George and Jeb Bush rigged...

      That's how we got to that point. You're damned right we need international observers!!

      Better still, we need new political parties -- one not dominated by undemocratic traitors and one complete with a spine (some others for variety might be nice too!).