NM: Here come da paper!

[Bill Bored]

http://www.abqjournal.com/news/xgr/apfinal02-16-06.htm
Paper Ballot Bill Among Those that Clear Legislature in Final Hours

By Susan Montoya Bryan/
Associated Press
SANTA FE — Lawmakers approved a flurry of bills in the final hours of the session that ended Thursday, including a measure that would impact voters across the state by requiring all counties to use paper ballot systems.
Voters would fill in spaces on the ballots for the candidates they wanted, then feed ballots into a tabulation machine. Gov. Bill Richardson advocated the system, saying it would help rebuild public confidence in elections.
House Voters and Elections Chairman Edward Sandoval, D-Albuquerque, said the nation was built on the public's right to vote and have those votes count.

[Amaryllis]

1. Another cutting edge state returns to old-fashioned paper!

[CrazyOrangeCat]

2. Yay !!!!!! n/t

:kick:

[nicknameless]

3. Excellent news!

Recommended

[Wilms]

4. Hmmm.

A D-Gov in NM who didn't want paper last year. An R-Gov in MD who didn't want paper last year.

This year, they both want paper.

What's got into them... :shrug:

[kster]

5. Paper ballots looks good

as long as you can count them ballots by hand, after the election if you choose, but if you have to go before a judge, just to get access to them ballots to do a hand count, then paper ballots doesn't make that much sense. Mandatory and Automatic hand recounts has to be a part of the setup to make this type of paper ballot right.

Automatic, if I have a group that wants to count all the Paper Ballots in a county, whether that county is close in the election or not I should be entitled to do it. My two cents.

[In Truth We Trust]

7. Absolutely right Kster. Auotomatic hand counts for true integrity!!!

[dweller]

6. K&R!

remember how close NM was in 2004.

dp

[Kurovski]

8. K&R(nt)

[Nothing Without Hope]

9. Good news! K & R And lookee what the Governor of Maryland did:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x438754
thread title (2-16-06 GD): Maryland's Republican Governor Issues Devastating Blow to Diebold!
Comment/excerpt: A BradBlog post & report: “…Calls for Paper Ballots, Decries Lack of Security, 1000% Increase in Maintenance Cost for Diebold Voting System! In Letter to Election Board, Guv of Diebold's Model State Declares He 'No Longer Has Confidence in Their Ability to Conduct Fair and Accurate Elections'…”

[Wilms]

10. K&R n/t