Alameda County looking at e-vote system other than Diebold

http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_2971631

Alameda County — the first large West Coast county to gamble on Diebold Election Systems Inc. and its electronic voting machines — is weighing whether to end that experiment, going with a more paper-based voting system and perhaps another supplier.
County officials are contacting voting-system vendors this week and asking whether they can provide a so-called "blended" voting system, with a winning bidder to be chosen in November.

Alameda is headed the way of many large counties — toward a hybrid of optical scanners for paper ballots and either electronic touchscreens or computerized ballot-marking devices for handicapped voters.

WHOO HOO!!!!!

The first nail in the Diebold coffin

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I am now hammering on our local election director who LOVES these spawns of Satan. He is sadly impervious to fact and reality.

and the board of supervisors today!

GET RID OF DIEBOLD ONCE AND FOR ALL

cheapist and most trustworthy if counted with an audience.

I'm a computer programmer. I know better.

absenteeB in November but they were still using optical scanners with central tabs and who knows what they did there.

In our upcoming Nov special election I hope all the thousands who also went with absentee ballots vote. The typical low voter turnout for these just might not be a factor and thats good for us. Two of his three initiatives are loosing in the ratings polls. The only one ahead is extending new teacher probationary time.