Los Alamos reconsiders touch screens

[Neal McBurnett <neal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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                 Los Alamos Reconsiders Touch Screen Voting

           Posted by [51]michael on Friday November 21, @10:56AM
                      from the narrowly-avoided dept.

 goombah99 writes "Los Alamos county, which boasts the highest geek
 PhD per capita in the world and considerable clout in secure
 computing, [52]has voted to rescind its previous plans to purchase
 Touch Screen voting systems and will ask the [53]New Mexico's
 secretary of state to address its concerns regarding an imminent
 state-wide purchase. They may get forced by the Clerk's office to use
 them anyway if the state makes its bulk purchase of [54]Sequoia
 AvcEdge touch screen systems with a Windows-based WinEDS
 database. The Los Alamos position is welcome news since it casts the
 rejection of these systems in a more sober light; widespread
 right-wing [55]conspiracy theories have done great harm by
 galvanizing election officials to be dismissive of re-opening their
 consideration of the issue. What won the day was convincing the
 county they had until 2006 to comply with HAVA, and that better
 machines with [56]voter verifiable audit trails and even [57]open
 source, were on the way. There is also [58]more in the local
 newspapers."

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   · [62]has voted to rescind
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