Miami Herald Editorial: Question the Vendors, Not the Election Supervisor

[Land Shark]

Short, but sweet editorial in today's Miami Herald on Ion Sancho, backing Crist's investigation:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/editorial/14249044.htm


It concludes: Leon County voters shouldn't be penalized for having an election supervisor who's serious about protecting the integrity of their votes.

[mdmc]

1. NY has not complied with HAVA yet

[Stevepol]

2. K&R

[Land Shark]

3. a good and short read, don't know if you gotta sign in or not

[bleever]

4. K&R. E-voting vendors are acting like the Soup Nazi.

"Too many questions! No soup for you!"

[BeFree]

5. Hmmmm, $560,000

Does any one know how many machines that would purchase, and how many do they need?

A stab in the dark would be: 56 machines for $10,000 each. And that for machines that have an incredible failure rate, are not secure, and are quite hackable.

Why doesn't the press ask those kind of questions? Why, of course, it the Hack America's Vote Act that is paying for all these machines, I guess the big money involved buys their quiet.

[Land Shark]

6. DREs range from 2500 to 4800 dollars apiece

and it depends on what extras, parts, maintenance contract and labor costs do or don't get factored in. Of course they never factor in the social cost of waiting in line...to vote.