BBV: Wash Post Reports Bi-partisan E-Voting Probe In Fairfax County

[althecat]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54432-2003Nov17.html
Fairfax To Probe Voting Machines

By David Cho and Lisa Rein
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, November 18, 2003; Page B01


Democrats in Fairfax County joined Republicans yesterday in criticizing the performance of the county's costly new high-tech voting system, saying that it may have disenfranchised voters in the Nov. 4 election.

The Democrat-led board of supervisors scolded the county board of elections for minimizing problems with the touch-screen machines that the county purchased this year for $3.5 million and asked County Executive Anthony H. Griffin to investigate what went wrong before the machines are pressed into service again in February for the Democratic presidential primary.

Fairfax's 1,000 touch-screen voting machines, which resemble laptop computers without keyboards, were supposed to simplify voting and tabulating results. But in a debut that mirrored many of the problems experienced last year in Montgomery County, some voters found the machines confusing, and the reporting of vote tallies was delayed almost a day.

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This is really cool...

As is this
Electronic Voting Debacle
By Scott Granneman, SecurityFocus
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/34051.html

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Onwards & upwards...

[SaveElmer]

1. I voted on one of these

I actually found it very easy to use...and it didn't let you overvote, and warned you if you did not complete the ballot. However, I understand they had alot of trouble with machines in a few precincts. Also, as is the problem with these everywhere - no paper trail. I have no problem with touch-screen voting as long as it gives you a printed "receipt" of who you voted for for verification.

[althecat]

2. It would help if it counted all the votes too...

The allegations about these machines is that they flicked 1 in 100 votes to the wrong candidate... calibrated vote stealing... which is getting pretty damn weird..

[leftchick]

3. not a reciept......

It should spit out a Ballot for you to verify and it should be auditable!

[dusty64]

4. Kick.

I'll take whatever publicity comes on this issue. It is telling that a rethug has to get screwed by the system before anything is done about it though. The rethug party is up in arms and fighting this tooth and nail, where the Hell have the Democrats been after 2002?

[RedEagle]

5. This Needs to Go Back Up

Kick!