Maryland Governor Wants Paper Ballots

supabeast! writes, "Fed up with all the problems in the state's electronic voting system, Maryland Governor Robert Erlich wants the state to scrap the entire system and return to paper ballots. He's threatened to call a special session of the legislature to change the law to allow paper ballots. What makes this particularly interesting is that Erlich is a Republican — the party often maligned for exploiting flaws in electronic systems — and his attempts to clean up Maryland's voting problems are being opposed by Democrats, the party that is usually complaining about electronic voting!"

Not an problem

[grub]

Not a problem: Diebold will get into the pre-checked ballot printing business.

Mistake

[RAMMS+EIN]

What? A politician who wants verifiably fair elections? There must be some kind of mistake...

as an MD'er, I don't think you understand

[mekkab]

and his attempts to clean up Maryland's voting problems are being opposed by Democrats, the party that is usually complaining about electronic voting!"

As a Maryland Democrat, I don't think you understand. We aren't the party that is usually complaining about electronic voting; we are the party that is usually complaining. PERIOD.

/I just calls 'em likes I sees 'em
//I complain about the ICC [iccstudy.org], too!

Re:Paper ballots makes dead people voting difficul

[spun]

I find this fascinating, do you have any sources so I can research this further?

Re:Why the reversal?

[nebaz]

As a corollary to this, since my party X is "none", I should say that !X "all parties" are corrupt. This is probably true for the big main two, but like anything else, given enough people, critical mass is reached and it becomes corrupt. This is probably true of governments, companies, organized religion, etc. That's why I advocate that we all live in caves with at most 20 people. That would keep us from being corrupt.

Re:Paper ballots makes dead people voting difficul

[spun]

Nice way to win converts, AC. Call someone with a legitimate and politely phrased question an idiot. Good work. Now because you hurt my feelings, I'm going to vote Democrat. Twice.

Outsourcing...

[TheLink]

The USA should outsource their elections to India :).

Your Party Sucks!

[Art_XIV]

Your party is corrupt. Your party is money-grubbing and is only concerned about their own power.

Only idiots vote for a party that is as non-logical as yours. Your party has been taken over by extremists who only want to destroy the United States as we know it!!

Your party is nothing but a bunch of Useful Idiots who support the New World Order!!

Your party doesn't even care about the people any more. Your party is only worried about getting more money from Special Interests.

Look at all of the voting fraud your party is involved in. Do you know why your party doesn't complain more loudly about vote fraud? It's because your party doesn't want the extend of their own involvement known to the general public! It would destroy your party!

Your party only fields idiots and crooks for office. They have to be idiots to support the things that your party believes in. You, know things like gay marriage, abortion, and the war? Idiots! I, however, will not associate with idiots, so I belong to my party.

Sure, my party has a few crooks in it, but I would never support it if it had as many crooks as your party does.

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