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US Paperless Voting Bill Advances

Posted by kdawson on from the will-of-the-people dept.

A couple of weeks back we discussed the effort to require voting paper trails in US federal elections. Now WhiteBoxVoter writes: "Democrats and Republicans in the US House of Representatives agreed today on a compromise that will push through a bill banning paperless voting machines and requiring a voter-verified paper record for every vote in the country, after government sanctioned hackers showed how they could break into all three of the top voting systems used in California." The NYTimes reported on Thursday that even if it passes the House, voting-machine reform that would take effect before the 2008 elections may die in the Senate.

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  1. Re:Very wierd that the richest country in by AuMatar · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually no, it does *NOT* identify who voted what. That would destroy the secret ballot, a cornerstone of democracy. Or do you want bosses threatening your job if you don't vote the right way? The job of a paper ballot is to allow the voter to see that the ballot is correct, and to allow for recounts.

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  2. Re:Like A Paper Trail Means Anything by AuMatar · · Score: 3, Informative

    You spot check. Count the vote in N% of the precincts. If the count doesn't match, automatic full recount on the paper ballots.

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  3. Next election? That's rather wishful. by Fantastic+Lad · · Score: 2, Informative
    There's not going to be a next election.

    There. I said it.

    Please let me be wrong.


    -FL

  4. Re:Very wierd that the richest country in by AuMatar · · Score: 2, Informative

    Except that there's a long and storied history of exactly this happening in the past. Study US elections in the late 1800s and early 1900s, especially in New York and other major cities.

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  5. Re:But... but... but.... by doom · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oh you're one of those eh? "The Democrats do it too!"... so it's fine when the Republicans do it!

    By the way, did you notice this story?. This is all about the brand new Secretary of State in California, Debra Bowen, giving the DRE manufacturers hell. There was no hope of getting these problems looked at under her Republican predecessor, Bruce McPherson... he loved DREs for some strange reason...