Nev. 1st Touch-Screen, Paper- Trail Voters (Nation's First)

[Nambe]

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP)

In what could become a model for other states, Nevada voters on Tuesday became the first in the nation to cast ballots in a statewide election on computers that printed paper records of electronic ballots.

A delegation of federal election officials monitored the equipment's debut in the state capital Tuesday, touring precincts and talking to poll workers as residents voted for congressional candidates, state legislators, school officials and judges.

Nevada's $9.3 million voting system includes more than 2,600 computers and printers deployed in every county. California, Washington and Illinois recently passed laws requiring a paper trail for electronic ballots, and at least 20 others are considering similar legislation.

The system, developed by California-based Sequoia Voting Systems Inc., aims to address concerns that paperless touchscreen votes cannot be properly audited or recounted. As many as 50 million Americans will cast ballots in the November presidential election on electronic machines that do not produce a paper receipt of the vote.

"From what I've seen, voters seem to enjoy the experience," said DeForest B. Soaries Jr., chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. "There hasn't been frustration or confusion." ..

[xray s]

1. the entire country should use the same type of machine, with a paper trail

let different manufacturers compete to build them, but the design and function should be the same no matter where you vote.

[Nashyra]

2. I've been to 2 demonstrations

one with a high ranking ACLU member and he was very satisfied. NONE of the counting is done on the internet. I'll be watching results closely as I am on the ballot in a primary for School Board. I'll make the Nov ballot because the third candidate quit but it should be interesting or devastating to see how many votes I got.

[Zan_of_Texas]

4. it's not too late for everyone in the US to vote for prez on paper

Go to www.votersunite.org

Check out the plan


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Insist on Hand Counted Paper Ballots for Federal Offices
Federal Paper Ballot Act of 2004


(1) All votes for federal offices shall be cast on paper ballots.

(2) All votes for federal offices shall be hand counted at the polling places where the votes were cast, and the manual count shall constitute the official count of the votes.

(3) Manually-tallied precinct totals for all federal offices shall be prominently posted at the polling places before the ballots are transported to the central facility.

(4) In any jurisdiction where votes for federal office are also counted by machine, the machine totals for federal offices shall be posted at the location where the votes are machine-counted.

(5) All absentee votes for federal offices shall be counted by hand, and the totals shall be posted at the central election office.

(6) This act is effective on the date of enactment.




Insist that your legislators understand ...

... a questionable, unauditable election in November could lead to massive court challenges and tear the country apart.

... an electronic federal election will result in a national crisis in November, regardless of the election outcome.

... it is the responsibility of Congress to avert a national crisis. This legislation will avert that crisis.

... you will not cast your vote for them in November unless they support this legislation.

Insist that they introduce and support the Federal Paper Ballot Act of 2004.

Contact your Representative and Senators now. 1-800-839-5276

[indigolady]

5. Paper Ballots

This sounds good if all the ballots are hand counted. I
learned at "black box voting" dot com that even
absentee ballots would go through the "central
tabulator" which is programed with "back door"
access. This scares me, but your solution sounds good if it's
really workable.

[stopbush]

3. My precinct's machines did not have a viewable paper ballot.

I asked before I voted and they told me that they didn't have it.

Lest anyone think the entire state of NV was using the trail-producing machines.

[DRoseDARs]

6. Mine did.

God knows if it was electronically recorded correctly. The paper receipt was correct, so at least there's that.

[AlinPA]

7. NV people know all about "one armed bandits"; that's why they will use

paper proof.