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WI Assembly OKs Voting Paper Trail
AdamBLang writes "Madison Wisconsin's Capitol Times reports 'With only four dissenting votes, the state Assembly easily passed a bill that would require that electronic voting machines create a paper record. The goal of the legislation is to make sure that Wisconsin's soon-to-be-purchased touch screen machines create a paper ballot that can be audited to verify election results.' Slashdot has previously reported on this bill." More from the article: "Wisconsin cannot go down the path of states like Florida and Ohio in having elections that the public simply doesn't trust ... By requiring a paper record on every electronic voting machine, we will ensure that not only does your vote matter in Wisconsin, but it also counts."
Please, grandparent, do not listen to people like the parent poster, who still believes that somehow President Bush "stole" the election. Our President's administration is not a "regime," and his mismatched recollection of history implying that President Bush used September 11th to go to war is at the height of idiocy.
Then the parent poster goes on to criticize Arizona's Prop 200, which says you must present proof of US Citizenship in order to vote. I'd love for anyone to point out how this would "create a problem" if you are a "USA citizen in good standing." In fact, it is doing exactly what he wants - eliminating voter fraud! Please don't think that Slashdot is representative of American politics and beliefs. It's much, much different, and the parent's poster's idea that our President ordered Al Qaeda to attack us and kill 3,000 of our own people so we could attack Iraq is absolutely ridiculous, and I hope anyone who is impartial (or even a Democrat) can see how outside the mainstream his "belief" is.
What also works is having the son of one of the democrat candidates go and slash all the tires on the vans that the republicans rented to bring people to the polls. He was convicted of that.
Or in Washington state you just keep "finding" more and more votes until the Democrat governor wins. And when the margin of victory is around 120 and it's realized that there are at least 5000 invalid and illegal votes (including a number of people who voted for their recently deceased relatives (who voted democrat and have been convicted)) you just have a judge say "No big deal, the vote stands".
Or in Michigan where there is clear, wide spread voter fraud by the local democrat candidates... oh who cares, right? Even if they did threaten to kill the person who turned them in.