In any event, at the risk of sounding like Pollyanna, I think voters in
ever larger numbers are beginning to believe that touch screens, optical
scanners and the like are the real scam and that we're beginning to see
more discussion of the issue of paper ballots. Even Al Franken--up to
now uncompromisingly hostile to our views on touch screens--had a
sympathetic interview with Deborah Bowen, California Secretary of
State earlier last week on his Air America show. And, as you know, she's
very much opposed to the mechanization of the voting process.
Finally, I want to thank you for--you should pardon the expression--
staying the course. I wish Anita and I could do more to help.
Keep the faith and all good wishes from us both,
Jordan Miller, Chicago
publisher of "What Went Wrong in Ohio" by Rep. John Conyers
and father of author Mark Crispin Miller, author of "Fooled Again: How the Right Stole The 2004 Election & Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them)"
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The Tribune's coverage of the City Council hearings on the Sequoia voting machines used in the March 21 primary allows the red herring raised by Alderman Burke to be the focus of the story. He focused on who owned the Sequoia voting machines.
It is interesting to know who owns each of the main voting machine companies.
But this misses the main point. And that is that the federal government has poured millions and millions of taxpayers' dollars into subsidizing electronic voting machines that can be hacked and that have had all sorts of mechanical problems.
What we need are methods to have a voter have confidence that the ballot cast is actually counted accurately. The electronic machines, by any of the companies, and using current methods of counting in the U.S., does not give that assurance.
I and others have made that point to the County Board and at the City Council hearings the other day, as well as to the federal government. But there is little or no serious consideration by the government of the problems with the new electronic machines being used these days, including in Cook County. The problm is the lack of easily verifable ballots and a reliable way of counting or recounting ballots. There needs to be easily read and verifiable paper ballots on hand.
-- Neal Resnikoff, Illinois Ballot Integrity Project
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ever larger numbers are beginning to believe that touch screens, optical
scanners and the like are the real scam and that we're beginning to see
more discussion of the issue of paper ballots. Even Al Franken--up to
now uncompromisingly hostile to our views on touch screens--had a
sympathetic interview with Deborah Bowen, California Secretary of
State earlier last week on his Air America show. And, as you know, she's
very much opposed to the mechanization of the voting process.
Finally, I want to thank you for--you should pardon the expression--
staying the course. I wish Anita and I could do more to help.
Keep the faith and all good wishes from us both,
Jordan Miller, Chicago
publisher of "What Went Wrong in Ohio" by Rep. John Conyers
and father of author Mark Crispin Miller, author of "Fooled Again: How the Right Stole The 2004 Election & Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them)"
The Tribune's coverage of the City Council hearings on the Sequoia voting machines used in the March 21 primary allows the red herring raised by Alderman Burke to be the focus of the story. He focused on who owned the Sequoia voting machines.
It is interesting to know who owns each of the main voting machine companies.
But this misses the main point. And that is that the federal government has poured millions and millions of taxpayers' dollars into subsidizing electronic voting machines that can be hacked and that have had all sorts of mechanical problems.
What we need are methods to have a voter have confidence that the ballot cast is actually counted accurately. The electronic machines, by any of the companies, and using current methods of counting in the U.S., does not give that assurance.
I and others have made that point to the County Board and at the City Council hearings the other day, as well as to the federal government. But there is little or no serious consideration by the government of the problems with the new electronic machines being used these days, including in Cook County. The problm is the lack of easily verifable ballots and a reliable way of counting or recounting ballots. There needs to be easily read and verifiable paper ballots on hand.
-- Neal Resnikoff, Illinois Ballot Integrity Project
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