Election machines voted out: 78 Iowa counties must adjust systems - again

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

BY ELIZABETH AHLIN

COUNCIL BLUFFS — Some southwest Iowa county auditors have a message for state legislators: Make up your minds.

Just a few years after the state used $18 million in federal funds to buy new voting machines, the Legislature has deemed one voting system unacceptable.


Glenwood, in Iowa's Mills County, has 12 touch-screen voting machines it will have to replace with an optical scanning system that can produce a paper trail of votes.


snip: The change will cost $8.5 million, but it is well worth the cost to get the entire state on the same system, Secretary of State Michael Mauro said.

More than that, it will create a record to fall back on if the voting machines are incorrectly programmed or if they malfunction. With touch screen machines, no paper ballot is generated.


Read more: http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2835&u_sid=10296561

[bemildred]

1. We need routine independent election audits.

So we need auditable election technologies.

[defendandprotect]

2. We need paper ballots and hand counting ---

These machines are an improvement; however, the paper trail doesn't always exist ---
jamming of machines, etal

[Hekate]

3. The tide may have turned on stolen elections in the "homeland"

This gives me hope.

Hekate

[Kip Humphrey]

4. Only if the hidden counting of trade-secret software driven central vote tabulators is eliminated!

[Hekate]

5. Grassroots elections officials are getting it, state elections officials are getting it, & we the...

...we the people are getting it. It's taken awhile, but it's happening. The tide may have turned.

Hekate