PA: Sellersville Joins Call for Paper Records of Electronic Voting

[Wilms]

Sellersville joins call for paper records of electronic voting

With Doylestown Township, says they aren't totally reliable.

By Charles Malinchak | Special to The Morning Call

May 13, 2008

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Council unanimously approved the measure, which came to their attention through a letter from Doylestown Township officials. The letter urged the borough to join a movement to provide a paper record in light of several instances and studies showing the electronic machines can be unreliable or are vulnerable to tampering.

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''There has been quite a bit of discussion about this all over. It is not exclusive to Sellersville Borough,'' Castelli said.

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Ulrich said the electronic machines are programmed outside the county in secret by a private company, which adds to the perception that they can't be relied upon.

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According to the resolution, ''Federal and certain state commissioned studies and election evidence have shown that direct recording electronic machines (DREs) are not accurate or reliable and that votes have been lost, miscounted or wrongly attributed in elections and furthermore that DREs are not secure and are open and subject to undetected tampering.''

The resolution urges county election officials to consider buying a voter-marked paper record system ''to provide the most accurate, reliable, tamper proof, cost effective and accessible voting system for Bucks County.''

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http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b4_2sellersville.6404705may13,0,758989.story

[truedelphi]

1. Paper ballots for all. It is elementary My Dear Watson! n/t

[kster]

2. You mean we have elections that are paperless. How did that happen?

Why wasn't I notified

:sarcasm:

K&R

[Festivito]

3. Here we are stuck fighting for a mediocre paper solution.

Well, it's better than NO PAPER by light years.

The better solution remains that we could submit our own paper that we take time to insure its readability and correctness, or reprint it at the poll and submit that.

But, that would make too much sense and wouldn't be so hard as to make voting more difficult in order to deter voting in our sad democracy that sends us to fight for democracy we don't even have here.