ES&S quote: "touch screens...can be easily manipulated"

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Election commission hears last pitch on vote machines



Saline County Clerk Freddy Burton and Election Systems & Software
representative Mike Devereaux discuss the options available for
polling places in the upcoming elections. (Courier photo by Richard
Duke)


Wednesday, December 22, 2004 1:53 PM CST
By Richard Duke, Courier Staff

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The Saline County Election Commission, faced with having to revamp the county voting system by 2005, listened to the final presentation by independent companies about new and technologically advanced voting machines.

Representatives from Election Systems & Software spoke to officials Thursday morning...

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Mike Devereaux, who gave the presentation, said that touch screens, which many once thought would be the wave of the future, will never replace a paper ballot. The technology of touch screens, however, can greatly help those needing assistance in marking their ballot.

"The problem with touch screens as vote counters is that they can be easily manipulated," Devereaux said. "If someone were to go to a polling place that had a large turnout for John Kerry, that person could vote for John Kerry falsely, and when they got their receipt for John Kerry, they could report to an official that their vote was counted wrong. The entire machine would then have to be shut down with all of those votes still inside."


Link:
http://www.bentoncourier.com/articles/2004/12/24/news/46tnews.txt


Notice that the ES&S Rep. admits that "The problem with touch screens as vote counters is that they can be easily manipulated"

Then is goes on to show his real allegiance by saying "that person could vote for John Kerry falsely..."

I wonder why he uses Kerry as an example instead of B*?

Oh, it's ES&S... They would never allow a false vote for B*!

Fuckers.