FLORIDA Judge will rule quickly in suit seeking e-vote paper trail

[Karmadillo]

Theresa LePore, not surprisingly, argued against a paper trail for touch screens.

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041020/APP/410201071

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A federal judge said Wednesday he would rule as quickly as possible on U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler's attempt to force the state to create a paper trail for any needed recounts with touch-screen voting machines.

After hearing three days of testimony with regular reminders of the flawed 2000 presidential vote, U.S. District Judge James Cohn said the "case is of great public importance" and promised a written order, which would be subject to quick appeal by the losing side.

The state issued a new rule Friday for manual recounts in extremely tight elections to replace one thrown out by a state judge. But Wexler maintains recounts aren't possible with the paperless machines because there is nothing to review by hand. Their end product is a form showing votes and instances where no votes were recorded.

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Theresa LePore, Palm Beach County's outgoing election chief, was the final witness on the paper trail trial. County supervisors have voted to add a paper trail to touch-screens once the state certifies such a system, but LePore testified she does not recommend it because of the consequences for large counties like hers.

Off the stand, she worried about the cost of printers, the need to store, maintain and deliver them to polling places and the additional training for poll workers when their average age is 74.

[ret5hd]

1. So, was Lepore sayin' that...

old people are too stupid or too slow?

[flordehinojos]

3. no... she's shilling for bush ,,,there might be a reward waiting at the

end of the bush rainbow for her. who knows?

[ret5hd]

4. oh, i know that...

i'm just saying that OUR spin should be that she is saying florida's elderly are slow and stupid.

[Atman]

2. Awwww....fuck America, what about the poor poll workers and grannies?

"Off the stand, she worried about the cost of printers, the need to store, maintain and deliver them to polling places and the additional training for poll workers when their average age is 74."


GODDAMN IT! GODDAMN IT! GODDAMN IT! GODDAMN IT! GODDAMN IT! GODDAMN IT! GODDAMN IT! GODDAMN IT! GODDAMN IT!

These people are as UN-AMERICAN as they get. I don't throw that term around lightly...these people DO NOT CARE about anything but getting Boss-Man another 4-years to completely eradicate the constitution.

I HATE REPUBLICANS, GODDAMN IT!