This is a few days old -- maybe you have all already seen it?
Thank you, North Dakota!!!!!
I am told by a credible source that LA County is also dropping Diebold...but, haven't found an article on that.
Hey, a little good news! It's a foothold!
Maybe we need a new color -- the red states, the blue states, and the _____ states (honest, transparent, verifiable election)?
North Dakota is a ??? clear? state?
Voting-machine concerns prompt changes in state planBy DALE WETZEL, Associated Press Writer
Bismarck Tribune
08-04-2003
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2003/08/04/news/state/sta01.txt Spooked by reports that new, sophisticated voting machines may be vulnerable to tampering, North Dakota election officials have changed plans to install them within three years. A state blueprint for complying with a new federal voting access law no longer includes references to county use of "touch screen" machines for casting ballots.
The machines, called DREs -- short for "direct recording electronic" -- allow voters to make their ballot choices without marking a piece of paper. Votes are recorded electronically when a voter touches a screen, or pushes a button. DRE systems are already used in a handful of states, including California, Georgia and Kansas. Maryland recently signed a contract to put machines in each of its voting precincts by March 2004.
North Dakota's plan for complying with the federal law has included equipping each polling place with at least one electronic voting machine in time for the 2006 elections. But a committee of election officials and interested observers, which is drafting state plans to meet the federal law's requirements, agreed last week to eliminate its references to voting machines. The change will give officials more leeway to monitor the machines' development, and more time to pick the best solution, said Cory Fong, North Dakota's deputy secretary of state. "It does provide us with a pause before moving forward with any kind of specific technology," Fong said.
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Under the North Dakota plan, DRE machines would be available at each precinct as a way to allow people with disabilities to vote without any assistance. However, the machines' use would not be reserved only for the disabled. County election officials say that optically scanned ballots, which are filled in with a pencil and read by a machine, are likely to be the primary way of voting statewide.
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