Article in NY Times about voting macines

I don't know if it's been posted yet but it's a good article.

<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/politics/campaign/23vote.html?ex=1086308297&ei=1&en=0efdb669c8770e5b>

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=574877

FYI, it's a good idea to post with the title of the article as your subject title, so people won't post again.

thanks :)

You might not be familiar with the Urosevitch bros., but one is president of Diebold and one is VP of ESS (the two companies who make the voting machines and program the software)

http://www.rense.com/general52/bros.htm>http://www.rense.com/general52/bros.htm

Really gives you the willies......

Demand Grows to Require Paper Trails for Electronic Votes
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

Published: May 23, 2004


ASHINGTON, May 22 - A coalition of computer scientists, voter groups and state officials, led by California's secretary of state, Kevin Shelley, is trying to force the makers of electronic voting machines to equip those machines with voter-verifiable paper trails.

Following the problems of the 2000 election in Florida, a number of states and hundreds of counties rushed to dump their punch card ballot systems and to buy the electronic touch screens. Election Data Services, a consulting firm that specializes in election administration, estimates that this November 50 million Americans - about 29 percent of the electorate - may be voting on touch screens, up from 12 percent in 2000.

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But in the last year election analysts have documented so many malfunctions, including the disappearance of names from the ballot, and computer experts have shown that the machines are so vulnerable to hackers, that critics have organized to counter the rush toward touch screens with a move to require paper trails.