"Nevada's E-Vote Free of Serious Problems"

[GreenPartyVoter]

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - Alarmed by software glitches, security threats and computer crashes with ATM-like voting machines, officials from Washington, D.C., to California are considering an alternative from an unlikely place: Nevada.

Silver State voters cast electronic ballots Tuesday on a $9.3 million voting system with more than 2,600 computers and printers in every county. The primary was free of serious problems that have embarrassed registrars in Florida, California, Maryland and other states with touchscreen machines.

"They were incredibly organized," said Marc Carrel, assistant secretary of state in California, where several counties are preparing to install similar equipment next year. "I think California could pull off a similar election if we had adequate training and education programs for poll workers and voters."

Credit the training in Nevada, and credit the printers - which give computer scientists and voter-rights advocates assurances that elections can be fully audited. As many as 50 million Americans elsewhere will use paperless touchscreens this November, and critics say hacking, malfunctioning and other problems in only a few counties could have huge implications in a tight presidential contest.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20040913/D852EQUO0.html

[renoray]

1. The real test is the election worth stealing

We have Sequoia Voting Systems here. The state pushed Diebold out of Washoe County so that everyone uses the same system. Sequoia has some indirect links to Caryle Group, but so far they don't have a reputation for being hacked or rigging elections...or at least they don't have a reputation for getting caught. There wasn't much point in rigging the state primaries, we'll see if the exit polls match the results of the Presidential Election before anyone should look at us as a model.

[newyawker99]

3. Hi renoray!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[cheshire]

2. Ca her and voting absetee. I'm not taking chances.