Now if only Texas will do the same
Florida plans to return to paper ballot system | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
DELRAY BEACH, FLA.— Gov. Charlie Crist on Thursday announced plans to abandon the touch-screen voting machines that many of Florida’s largest counties installed after the disputed 2000 presidential election. The state will instead adopt a system of casting paper ballots counted by scanning machines in time for the 2008 presidential election.
Voting experts said Florida’s move, coupled with new federal voting legislation expected this year, could be the death knell for the paperless electronic machines. If as expected the Florida Legislature approves the $32.5-million cost of the change, it would be the nation’s biggest repudiation yet of touch-screen voting, which was widely embraced after the 2000 recount as a state-of-the-art means of restoring confidence that every vote would count.
Florida is abandoning the paperless electronic voting machines. Yippee!! Now we just need Texas to do the same. What will it take for everyone to realize it was a bad idea for there to be no paper trail? It has been demonstrated that the machines are susceptible to malicious attacks yet here we are still using them.
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