BBVish: Ion Sancho Rules! [View All]

[porphyrian]

For those of you who don't know who Ion Sancho is, he's the Leon County Supervisor of Elections in Florida. Leon county is where the state capitol, Tallahassee, is, and also the seat of Jeb!, George's more intelligent but no less sinister brother. Anyway, Ion was the only Supervisor of Elections to come out against the touch screen BBV crap. I just heard him on NPR saying that an independent study of the 2002 elections (I believe it was 2002) found that the counties using BBV were 8 times as likely to have blank votes (no vote for either main candidate) than the other counties. He emphasized that that was 8 times more likely that your vote does not count with this equipment. Here in Leon county, we use paper ballots and optical scanners, and we were one of the few counties that had consistent numbers in every recount in 2000.

If anyone else heard this on the radio, feel free to correct whatever I've gotten wrong. I was laughing pretty hard in my excitement at hearing something other than commercial or fascist propaganda on a local station other than college radio.