9% Failure of DRE Printers, ADA Touch-screen Not Accessible

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

9% failure of iVotronic VVPAT, and disabled can't vote on ADA iVotronic.

North Carolina was a Beta Test for the VVPAT in 2006

We tried to get touchscreens banned in NC back in 2005
when we introduced our verified voting bill.
http://www.ncleg.net/committees/jointselectcomm_/january72005mee_/mercurinclegisl/mercurinclegisl.pdf

BUT - Election directors persuaded lawmakers to allow DREs, and only if
they had the toilet paper ballot or a "ballot" that couldn't be handled by the voters.

Our biggest opponent against VVPB, George Gilbert,
Director of Guilford County - told the state legislature in August 2005 -
that the touchscreen paper trail was unreliable,and he didn't recommend it.
http://www.ncvoter.net/downloads/HouseElectLawAug10Gilbert.doc

Citizens of Guilford County lobbied their BOE and BOC in favor of optical scan,
and against touchscreens.

We had an advocate for the blind to join us in lobbying for optical scan
with the Automark:

Dottie Neely, Guilford CO. Social Worker for the Blind went to county commissioner meetings
and opposed the purchase of touchscreens.She stated that they were not in fact truly accessible. She is legally blind.
http://www.yesweekly.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=603&TM=48903.21

Well, as we predicted - the touchscreen printers failed -
and the machines were not accessible to the blind:

Guilford County: Printers Fail on Touch-screens
GREENSBORO — The system meant to produce a paper backup of votes cast on
Guilford County’s electronic voting machines failed in many cases during
the election Nov. 7.

About 9 percent of the printers attached to the county’s voting machines
had a jam or other problem.
In many cases, that problem made the paper record generated unusable
for purposes of a state-mandated audit, according to county elections
director George Gilbert....
http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061215/NEWSREC0101/61215003/-1/NEWSREC0201

This November, Dottie Neely went to the polls, and found that the
"disabled accessible" touchscreens were not accessible, after waiting an
hour for someone to come and turn it on. The machine was difficult to use,
and would only allow Dottie to vote if she selected a straight ticket!
http://www.yesweekly.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=1877&TM=49981

Gilbert wants the media and public to think that the state is going
to allow the paper printer to be removed,and have it replaced with
an audio recording device. (Ted Selker's?).

Guilford taxpayers have already been unneccessarily bled for $1.3 million
over the amount of the state/federal grant - because Gilbert doesn't
like paper ballot/optical scanners.
Now, Gilbert expects taxpayers to cough up $1.4 Million more.
- For machines that don't provide a reliable paper ballot/trail.
- For machines that the disabled can't vote on.

For a Rube Goldberg machine.

[Higans]

1. Live free or Die Bold.

[napi21]

2. I don't know anything about the Ivotroics, or even what business

their mfg. is in, but Diebold has been making ATM's for YEARS, WITH a printer mechanism attached! I won't say there's NEVER a jam, but they sure are VERY VERY infrequent!

How damn hard can this be? Orinters are simple, and the technology to make them work is simple. Why are these companies making this sound like rocket science????

[Bill Bored]

3. Sounds like everything is going according to plan!

Kitty and Lou knew:
<http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1611&Itemid=1145>

And it was even on the Tee Vee!:
<http://www.votetrustusa.org/videos/CNN071106.wmv>

Are DREs just designed to fail?:
<http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1057&Itemid=26>

NIST said they are:
<http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1562&Itemid=26>

And even Dr. Mercuri couldn't cure them:
<http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1851&Itemid=26>

VoteTrust complained to the EAC:
<http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1205&Itemid=26>

But they keep jumping ship:
<http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1923&Itemid=26>

And they can't see DeForest for the trees!:
<http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1358&Itemid=26>

Now Donetta's in charge:
<http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2099&Itemid=26>

Think she'll know what to do?