Maryland Fights to Keep E-voting

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday September 22, 2006 @07:06AM from the fight-for-the-right-to-have-no-rights dept.

crystalattice writes "Apparently Maryland election officials never have computer problems. That's why they're fighting so hard to keep their Diebold e-voting machines. Washington Post reporter Marc Fisher received nothing but bad attitudes, dodges, and excuses when he attempted to discuss the issue with the state elections administration and Diebold." From the article: "I asked the state's elections administrator, Linda Lamone, whether Maryland wasn't just a bit too quick to adopt electronic voting. Doesn't the computer at your desk ever freeze up on you? 'No,' she replied. Never? 'No.' But surely people in your office have had that experience? 'No.' (Maybe we've found the solution to Maryland's voting problem: Everybody head on down to Linda Lamone's office, where the machines work 100 percent of the time.)"

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Re:The solution is all ready exists. by operagost · 2006-09-22 07:31 · Score: 0, Redundant

You punch in your votes, you get a receipt
... which you hand to the mob boss outside to prove you voted "correctly."
No, we don't need to give the voter a paper receipt, thanks.

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Re:Geez that's disturbing... by operagost · 2006-09-22 07:51 · Score: 0, Redundant

I don't think he was slandering the party. He was calling out the extremist wing of the party that unfortunately has hijacked the party. No one is suggesting that all Republicans are corrupt, election-rigging holy rollers,
See, this is ridiculous. What do pentecostals have to do with vote-rigging?

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