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General News 3/6/2006 at 9:41 PM EST

MD House Committee votes 20-3 to scrap Diebold Touch-screens in State!

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Signs are good in Maryland -- Diebold's original "showcase state" -- that the legislature there is finally wising up to the democracy undermining problem that is Diebold.

According to AP -- yes, again AP -- the Democratic chaired House Ways and Means Committee "voted 20-3 on Friday to scrap the Diebold touchscreen machines for at least this year and use paper ballots with an optical-scan system for the primary and general elections."

The measure still has to move through the Senate, though the Republican Governor Robert Ehrlich has previously called for something very similar. So if the Senate moves, chances are the Guv will sign on.

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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)

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