No Paper Trail
October 26th, 2004 | Published in Current Affairs | 1 Comment
I have to admit, I’m a little concerned.
ORLANDO, Florida — A U.S. district judge ruled Monday that Florida election officials have no legal obligation to provide voter-verifiable paper trails for electronic voting machines, but it would be better if they did. In tossing out a suit brought by Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Florida), Judge James Cohn ruled that the touch-screen voting machines do not hinder the ability of election officials to determine the choice of voters in any race. “Touch-screen machines eliminate the problems confronted during the 2000 election in having humans interpret voter intent based on ambiguous markings of the voter,” Cohn wrote in his summary judgment.
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October 28th, 2004 at 4:18 pm (#)
Nice blog. I thought I was the only one still listening to Smashing Pumpkins.