Enemy Combatant
Thursday, April 22, 2004
No Black Box Voting For California
Some rare good news, for a change, from the Left Coast -- come November, there won't be any black-box, "trust-us-we're-Republicans" vote counting here:
By Jim Wasserman
ASSOCIATED PRESS
12:51 p.m. April 22, 2004
SACRAMENTO ñ California should ban the use of 15,000 touch-screen voting machines made by Diebold Election Systems from the Nov. 2 general election, an advisory panel to Secretary of State Kevin Shelley recommended Thursday.
By an 8-0 vote, the state's Voting Systems and Procedures Panel recommended that Shelley cease the use of the machines, saying that Texas-based Diebold has performed poorly in California and its machines malfunctioned in the state's March 2 primary election, turning away many voters in San Diego County.
The recommendation affects 15,000 Diebold touch-screen machines in San Diego, Solano, Kern and San Joaquin counties.
Granted, we were going to go for Kerry anyway, but maybe this will prompt election officials in other states who aren't yet officially part of the RoveBorg to think about the integrity of the individual ballot, for a change (in other words, to do the job they were sworn to do) . . .
