(Palm Beach) Poll workers to verify voting machine information

[Steve A Play]

Poll workers to verify voting machine information

By George Bennett

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Sunday, March 05, 2006

Activist Bev Harris has already brought about at least one change to Palm Beach County's elections procedures.

Beginning in the fall, precinct paperwork will include a space for poll workers to write down the date and time as it appears on electronic voting machines at the beginning and end of election day. That's an attempt to allay tampering fears fanned by Harris at a recent public meeting.

Harris, a nationally known critic of paperless voting who founded the group Black Box Voting, told the county's Elections Technology Advisory Committee on Feb. 23 that odd dates on event logs from about 40 of the county's approximately 4,300 voting machines in the 2004 election raised "insider tampering" concerns.

She forwarded those concerns and others to the West Palm Beach office of the FBI last week. An FBI spokeswoman said Harris' information is being reviewed.

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[timtom]

1. I live here.

Nothing short of forbidding those infernal machines and returning to paper ballot that can be counted by non-partisan people is adequate. Anything is a stop-gap or half measure.

[Steve A Play]

2. True that!

But it's going to take time and a lot of energy from concerned citizens to make it happen. At least Black Box Voting.org and Bev Harris are in your state raising awareness of the problems and forcing your officials to act on them. :)

Steven P. :kick:

[RufusEarl]

3. Bev Harris

I wish we had her group in Texas. I keep bringing the problem with E-voting up at meeting here in my prescient, but no one pays any attention to it.

I can't seem to get anyone to understand the problem exists, and the grass roots effort i've been trying to get going is going nowhere. But i'll keep trying!

[lovuian]

4. I'm glad they have to do this its a step in the right direction

at least Bev did some positive things...

[AX10]

5. It's certainly better than having DIEBOLD do it.

[VegasWolf]

6. What a total joke. We pay Diebold tens of millions of dollars to build

voting systems that can't be trusted and validated. Truly this is a Bizzarro World.