RE: electronic voting tomorrow

[Steve Morrison <smorrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just a side note to this discussion. The vote counting computers in Wichita
County, Texas (Wichita Falls), were checked and verified the week before the
election. During the counting process one of the computers stopped working,
so the second computer was used. However there were so many undercounts in
the presidential election here that election officials rechecked one
precinct, and found a large number of errors. The Secretary of State of
Texas called the county judge after midnight, and because the count had so
many errors, ordered that all counts be thrown out, and election officials
are hand counting ballots beginning today.

I don't want a balloting system without an audit trail, and I don't trust a
strictly electronic audit trail.


Steve Morrison
Beacon Insurance
940-720-4672 

-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne McAlpine [mailto:wmcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 10:38 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: electronic voting tomorrow

Most election official would see this as an invitation to fraud, allowing
voters to sell their confirmation tickets as proof that they voted the
"right" way.

James H H Lampert wrote:
5. It should issue a verification ticket to the voter, giving the voter a
permanent record of the ballot.


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