+ - Problems with the "Paperless Voting" bill->
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doom
doom writes "Are you excited to hear that Congress is going to vote on a bill
to ban paperless voting? Well I was, and Move On clearly
is, but if there are election reform advocates that tell a
different story:
Bev Harris:
Is
a flawed bill better than no bill?:
"the Holt Bill provides for a paper trail (toilet paper
roll-style records affixed to DRE voting machines) in 2008,
requires more durable ballots in 2010, and requires a complex set
of audits. It also cements and further empowers a concentration
of power over elections under the White House, gives explicit
federal sanction to trade secrets in vote counting, mandates an
expensive 'text conversion' device that does not yet exist which
is not fully funded, and removes 'safe harbor' for states in a
way that opens them up to unlimited, expensive, and destabilizing
litigation. "
Steve Freeman:
Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
"Today, the Holt bill faces a 'fast track' vote in
Congress. Essentially this means an up or down vote on a terrible
bill, rather than an opportunity to speak in the nation's most
important forum about what may well be the greatest threat to
democracy in the history of the republic.""
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