Dan
Rather Reports new evidence:
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Sequoia used paper known to be defective to print punchcard ballots for
Palm Beach county in November, 2000, and instructed their employees to prepare
the ballots in a defective manner. This caused the "hanging chads"
that prevented thousands of votes from being counted, and was used to persuade
Congress to replace paper-based ballots with invisible electronic ballots,
courtesy of the Help America Vote Act in passed in 2002.
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ES&S delivered touchscreen voting machines knowing that 30-40% had
defective touchscreens. Their machines were used in the Christine Jennings race
in Florida in November, 2006, where 18000 votes were lost.
Archived program: www.hd.net/drr227.html
VoterAction calls for Congressional Investigation:
www.voteraction.org/release.html
Sequoia Fails to Answer Questions:
www.bradblog.com/?p=4998
All links: www.wheresthepaper.org/news.html#DanRather
"Voter confidence" has to be based on observed handling of votes and vote-counting. Voter-marked paper ballots enable voters to directly observe their own votes, and enable ballot-handling and counting to be observed as well as filmed with feeds to the internet. Paper-based voting technology is understandable to all, easily observed by citizens, and easily manageable to our local election administrators.
Congress must ban electronic voting machines (aka touchscreens or DRE "Direct Recording Electronic" voting machines). Invisible electronic ballots are an invitation to fraud! The computer screen and paper trail are placebos because neither is counted to determine election tallies. Most voters can't verify the paper trail, and vendors have delivered such shoddy printers that many paper trails are unreadable.
American election administrators are neither interested in, nor capable of, managing computer security. The recent scandals in California show that private vendors are not the proper guardians of democracy -- they have delivered defective, illegal equipment, and local election administrators were none the wiser. Still, local election directors across America say they don't need more security procedures because they "trust" computers!
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