Reply #1: HAVA Does NOT Require Punch Cards to Go [View All]

"May meet the requirements of subparagaph A..." then says how to do it. With education and instruction, punch cards are NOT required to be eliminated. Those who buy into this haven't read HAVA. It makes some noise about punch cards but the meat of it is Title III, and punch cards DO NOT have to go.

Go to votersunite.org and download Mythbreakers on HAVA and get it in front of every official in Utah in charge of aquiring machines. I am so infuriated by this lie that is perpetuated over and over. And every other argument you mentioned is by now a very old red herring.

DRE's cost tons of money, have special storage requirements and very expensive maintenance contracts- and they won't last as long as punch cards or optical scan. In the long run, they are an expensive boondoggle. But, hey, create a "Florida," create perception, and sell a flawed product. Marketing at work.


http://fecweb1.fec.gov/hava/law_ext.txt

(B) A State or jurisdiction that uses a
paper ballot voting system, a punch card voting
system, or a central count voting system
(including mail-in absentee
ballots and mail-in ballots), may meet the
requirements of subparagraph (A)(iii) by--

(i) establishing a voter education program
specific to that voting system that notifies
each voter of the effect of casting multiple
votes for an office; and
(ii) providing the voter with instructions
on how to correct the ballot before it is cast
and counted (including instructions on how to
correct the error through the issuance of a
replacement ballot if the voter was otherwise
unable to change the ballot or correct any
error).

(C) The voting system shall ensure that any
notification required under this paragraph preserves
the privacy of the voter and the confidentiality of
the ballot.