A blog by Nicholas Solter about politics and everything else
Posted in Voting on Sep 29th, 2008
I wrote last week about problems with Diebold’s electronic voting machines, and about the shenanigans of El Paso County Clerk and Recorder Bob Balink. These seemingly unrelated stories came together for me last weekend when I read about John Gardner in the Colorado Springs Independent. Evidently Gardner, who is in charge of our electronic voting […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 26th, 2008
Diebold Election Systems (which has evidently changed its name to Premier Election Systems) has finally admitted that its electronic voting machines suffered from a bug that caused them to drop votes. This problem illustrates the need for a Voter-Verified Paper Record (VVPR) when voting electronically. Without a paper trail for audits and recounts, there’s just […]