Reported e-voting problems during 2006 TX primary

those eslates... (0.00 / 0)

you know, i have a good amount of confidence in the DAU/JBC devices, but not the hart intercivics central tabulator.  having worked as an election judge that night, i know firsthand of the problems we experienced in tarrant county.

what boggles my mind, however, is that the tarrant county elections board didn't even realise there was a problem w/the central tabulator until the next day!

Fudd's first law of opposition: Push something hard enough and it will fall over.

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by: annatopia @ Wed Mar 22, 2006 at 10:11:41 AM CST

Voter beware (3.00 / 1)

While most of us have suspected that Diebold was the worst of the bunch, and they still are, eSlate is really coming in a close second this year.  And to make matters worse, they're picking up most of the county contracts in this state.  Simply because they have their headquarters here in Austin.

Some of the largest counties in the state use eSlate - Travis, Harris, Tarrant, Galveston. 

I want to know what, used car salesman turned Secretary of State for Texas, Roger Williams has to say now about his "easier, faster, more secure" e-voting systems?  That repuke spent $3 million of our tax payer dollars advertising/whoring for these private voting system companies before the primaries.  These machines are the biggest fraud threatening our Democratic process of voting.

Paper ballots - not vapor ballots!

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by: sonia @ Wed Mar 22, 2006 at 10:36:42 AM CST

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When are we going to convince our legislators (0.00 / 0)

That PAPER reciepts are positivly essential if we are going to use electronic voting.

Prisoner of hope.

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by: comeon @ Wed Mar 22, 2006 at 10:28:38 AM CST

Maybe this next session, after this primary fiasco (3.00 / 1)

We tried to get a voter verified paper audit trail and ballot bill passed last regular session in the Texas Legislature.  Aaron Pena filed HB166 which was amended in session, with lots of good input from voting rights groups.  It really was a very good bill when it went to committee.  The republicans killed it by butchering the bill in the elections committee.  You can thank Mary Denny-R (elections committee chair) for that.  She took a great bill and simply made it a study of VVPAT. Then she sent it out so late from her committee, that it died in calendars committee.  Never got a hearing on the floor of the house.

Representative Pena has vowed to file it once again next session.  We have to keep trying.  Mary Denny has also announced her retirement, so even though she's in the special session, she won't be there for the next regular session.  I'm sure Craddick will appoint an equally manipulative chair for the elections committee that will do his bidding, however.

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by: sonia @ Wed Mar 22, 2006 at 10:47:11 AM CST

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