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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."
Related Links · [60]Dev Tools DevChannel · [61]Compare the best prices on: Software/Utilities · [62]has voted to rescind · [63]New Mexico's secretary of state · [64]Sequoia · [65]conspiracy theories have done great harm · [66]voter verifiable audit trails · [67]open source · [68]more · [69]More Security stories · [70]Also by michael
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