Georgia activists rock (& educate): Paper trail for voting not a cure

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nonpartisan legislation drafted by the Georgia Voter Choice Coalition, mandates the provision of voter-verified paper ballots for Georgia’s paperless Diebold Election System.

Citizen concerns about paperless voting have mounted since the installation of the Diebold Election System in Georgia in 2002. Their concerns have been heightened by recent studies, such as the one issued in September 2004 by the Free Congress Foundation, who warned that Georgia has one of worst voting system implementations in the nation. The foundation issued a report grading Georgia’s system an F- on a national average of C+.
http://www.voterchoice.org/library/fminus.htm


Electronic voting machines can be accidentally or intentionally programmed in a variety of ways to record and count the vote differently from what the voter intends. Additional problems arise in paperless implementations, because there is no mechanism to conduct a recount independently of the election tally that is computed by the system’s software.


“These major flaws will be rectified with the passage of this legislation. In providing for voter-verified paper ballots that will be counted at the precinct level, voters gain an auditing mechanism to compare to the electronic tally,” said Anne Merkl, chair of the Voter Choice Coalition. “We believe very strongly that securing the integrity of our elections should be at the top of the 2005 legislative agenda.”

For background information and to review the proposed legislation, go to: http://www.voterchoice.org. Scroll down to mid-page, left column for copies of the legislation.

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