San Diego UT: Voting integrity, Challenge to county procedures unfounded

[MindPilot]

Jess Durfee, the local Democratic Party boss, was right about one thing the other day when he criticized the county's procedures with its electronic voting system: “We risk everything if we risk the integrity of our electoral system.” But about everything else, he and his supporters were dead wrong. And it is their unfounded insinuations, not the voting machines or procedures, that undermine voter confidence in the integrity of our electoral system.

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The critics of electronic voting or the county's election procedures have conveniently forgotten the mess in Florida following the 2000 presidential election – the hanging chads, the recounts, the differing procedures from county to county, the court challenges – that all stemmed from the old-technology punch-card system. The same kind of punch-card system then used in San Diego County.

Now that was a pall over electoral integrity. Give us electronic voting and its safeguards any day.

www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060724/news_mz1ed24botto.html

The voting machines are working perfectly! PERFECTLY I TELL YOU!!!

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1. need to drop http:// from your link

[MindPilot]

2. Oookay....??

It worked with the http:// and it works without. Is there some new DU rule about http://?

I've been on DU for a few years and never had to remove it before.

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3. It usually won't work without an intentional double click

on the link with the http tag. I had to try several times to make it work. As a general rule, embedded links in the post will not work unless the preamble is removed. I am not computer literate enough to explain the technical reasons, though I'd like to know, but I have seen it happen often enough here and the fix is always to remove it and voila! magic!

Edit to add: Ill mannered me! Thanks for the post and link--
valuable.