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December 3, 2006
'Daily Voting News' For December 03, 2006
By JGideon
a run-down of the days elections/voting news from across the country and overseas.
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Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org "Among the supposed benefits of electronic voting ---- of which Riverside County was a pioneer, and for which it spent in excess of $30 million ---- were greater accuracy, reliability and speed. What we appear to have gotten for that money was less reliability and slower results. The question of accuracy remains unanswered and here we are, almost four weeks after the election, and the Registrar of Voters office just posted what appear to be final numbers late Saturday." / "What is the point if you run it through the machine again?" said Mary Kiffmeyer, the Minnesota secretary of state, who instituted hand recounts in 2000. "If you do it by hand, you're doing an audit on the machine."...