NC Democrats pushing "alternative voter verification systems"

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

The Democratic led Senate Judicary Committee is pushing an
"experimental pilot program" to be added to North Carolina's bill for voter verified paper ballots.

Led by Senator Daniel Clodfelter, this committee has mangled the bill 20 times now.
Bill sponsor Senator Ellie Kinnaird is defending the latest twist to the bill.
Chairman Sen. Daniel G. Clodfelter (D); Mecklenburg Co., phone [phone] [e-mail]
Senator Ellie Kinnaird (D) (Orange, Person) [phone] [e-mail]

This bill was supposed to be the "Public Confidence in Elections Bill",
but is turning out to be more like the
"The NC Democratic Election Confidence Game and Pork Bill"

One of the latest maschinations is the Pilot program to put
either video, audio, high speed scanners or encryption schemes to verify the ballot.

Senator Clodfelter is trying to say that this is all safe, and no harm will be done,
because paper ballots will be used *during the experiment*.
Also, that the voters in the experimental precincts can choose between
using the "verification systems" or the paper ballot backup systems.

This proposal was already rejected when the original bill was written,
and experts have written to Clodfelter and Kinnaird to object to the program,
but
I am told that "powerful people" want this,
and
we have to "compromise".

Article excerpt in WRAL:

"Some say questions about the new technology could put the rest of the bill in jeopardy.
However, Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, D-Orange, who sponsored the bill, disagrees.

"We have to accommodate those who want a piece of paper that they mark and can count
and those who say technology is improving and there's something out there that may be much better than we have now," Kinnaird said.

However, Bob Phillips of Common Cause NC disagrees, he gets it right:
"The verification standard should be a paper that someone can view," said Bob Phillips, of Common Cause.

http://www.wral.com/news/4693184/detail.html

Amazingly, it is lame duck State Board of Elections member,
Bob Cordle (also supposedly a democrat) who asked for this experiment.
Lame duck:
http://www.wral.com/news/4696904/detail.html?treets=ral&tml=ral_8pm&ts=T&tmi=ral_8pm_1_07000107072005

(Cordle was the BOE member who reacted explosively to the proposal for an Ethics policy for BOE members)

How can this guy have so much influence?
This program is a trojan horse to eliminate voter verified paper ballots.