Reply #28: Solution Not That Simple... [View All]

>>This seems so incredibly simple to me. Now we have Mr. Sancho in the PERFECT POSITION to order pen and paper ballots, counted BY HAND, immediately after polls close. Then the tallies are called into the Sec of State's office.<<

It's not quite that simple. Unfortunately. I can't recall the *specific* reason that can't be done, but I know that one of them is the requirement of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) which Florida has interpreted to require an electronic voting machine in every precint. (HAVA doesn't actual require that -- just one "disabled-accessible" voting device in every precinct -- but the Voting Machine Companies have spent quite a bit of money successful propogating that idea)

There is more in FL law requiring electronic voting, as I recall, but I forget what the state law demands are. In either case, Sancho had looked into using the Vote-PAD (Vote-PAD.us) as a simple paper-based, non-electronic solution to meet the "disabled-accessible" requirements, but they too were disallowed by the state of Florida.

For more info on how Diebold was able to get the phony "disabled-accessible" provision into HAVA (hint: it involved Ohio's corrupt Bob Ney) see this article:
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002261.htm

Brad