If McCain is concerned about "voters"--where's the concern about e-voting?

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I don't see many repugs concerned about that issue...why not?



Florida Republicans Pan E-Voting


Florida Republicans are backing off initial support for electronic voting machines and recommending to voters in South Florida to file for a paper absentee ballot. The Associated Press reports that the state GOP paid for a flier critical of electronic voting and sent it to voters who will participate in a primary election next month. The flier raises similar concerns that Democrats and civil rights groups have about the machines leaving a paper record of votes in case of a malfunction. Governor Jeb Bush wasn't happy with the maneuver, according to the report. The machines are being used in the state's 15 largest counties.

http://www.csoonline.com/news/index.cfm?id=2755

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1. Republicans walk out of Federal e-voting hearing.

Republicans walk out of Federal e-voting hearing.

This article reports on the evoting hearing on 9 April 2004.

Rebecca Mercuri was the only non-DRE voice allowed to be heard; sadly the League of Women Voters (who should know better!), the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the American Association of People with Disabilities (which is known not to know better), and the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials all gave testimony harmful to the best interests of their constituents.

It appears that voting technology is a topic that the Republican leadership wants to tightly control. It is without doubt that Republicans own most of the companies that manufacture, sell, and service voting machines. And President Bush and the Republican Congress appear determined to control and limit oversight of the elections industry. The Bush Administration has stacked the Election Assistance Commission with supporters of paperless voting technology, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) got walloped with a $22 million budget cut in fiscal 2004, which means that NIST will have to cut back substantially on its cyber security work, as well as completely stop all work on voting technology for the Help America Vote Act.

With no mandatory federal standards or certification in place and no funding available, the Bush Administration and Republican-controlled Congress have ensured that their friends in the elections industry maintain control of voting technology and, in effect, election results.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/cananian/33952.html