Disturbing information about touchscreen voting machines in Wisconsin
The group that was doing recounts of the recall election sent out an email yesterday. (Brief summary: they did find some errors, and will come out with a final report later, after intense data analysis is complete.)
One thing really leaped out at me: "one of our most significant findings was that the use of touchscreen voting machines has expanded across the state. About 40% of voters in the recall election voted on touchscreen machines. Yet the GAB’s official documentation of voting equipment still portrays touchscreen machines as being used by a small number of voters mostly for accessibility purposes." Yikes!
At the Supreme Court recount, I remember, a few of the Milwaukee County suburbs had a lot of votes from the touchscreen machines (which produced extremely long tapes that had to be carefully wound up while hand-counting the votes). Also, I once observed at an Ozaukee County election site where the poll workers were encouraging the voters to use the same kind of touchscreen (because they said it was so much easier, as I recall). At the Milwaukee city wards the workers have said that nobody ever uses the machine they have (which is the kind that prints on a regular ballot that is counted like all the others).
Who has seen instances where the touchscreens were used extensively? We should be thinking about this. I had no idea that it was so widespread.
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