Kerr County TX: Sounds like HAVA is making it more difficult to vote.

[Stevepol]

Electronic voting raises a lot of cost issues. It's pretty pricey to be able to rig elections. Here's a small example of those issues.

Electronic voting machine fees set

By Gerard MacCrossan
The Daily Times

New electronic voting equipment mandated in the Help America Vote act will be used for the first time in Kerr County during the March primaries.

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County Judge Pat Tinley asked if Pieper could price the software to program the equipment. Letz requested to that a representative for the election equipment supplier, Hart Intercivic, appear at the next commissioners meeting.

“It makes no sense to have every entity to pay $2,100 if the software is $5,000,” Letz said.

“It sounds like the Help America Vote act is making it more difficult to vote,” Pct. 2 Commissioner Bill Williams said.

Here's the link to the whole story, which comes from VotersUnite & John Gideon:

http://web.dailytimes.com/story.lasso?wcd=18797

[Wilms]

1. Great snapshot.

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"Even if she could purchase the equipment — estimated to cost between $5,000 and $8,000 — Pieper said she wouldn’t have time to program the equipment this year for all school and city elections.

“I’m not an elections administrator, and I can’t do everybody’s elections,” she said. “It’s not that I’m being ugly; I don’t have the time, and I don’t have the knowledge.”

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So this means that HartInterCivic becomes the default elections administrator.

We pay to have our elections run by corporations.

[KoKo]

2. HAVA ACT is a Mess....don't see how states will comply...thanks for

the post! Kick!