What percent of America used touch screen voting???

Anyone have a source?

No idea where I saw that...sorry. :shrug:

is that blowing off the issue like the DNC has done will alow doubling at least of that with little security reforms.

We are fighting a death sentence with little court of appeals hope.

paper trail.

nt

http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/story1c103102.html

Still searching for sourced info re percent in this election.

http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0906/pol-vote-09-06-04.asp

Nearly 30 percent of American voters will use touch-screen machines in November, almost none of which will generate a paper record. Defenders say the machines provide electronic means to recount contested votes. But skeptics continue to call for the addition of a voter-verified paper record that could be stored securely and used as an additional check.

According to this link (League of Women Voters, NJ)
http://www.lwvnj.org/booth/machines.html

• Once universal, today paper ballots are used by only 1 percent of voters in this country

• Marksense or optical scan systems are used by about 27 percent of American voters.

• The lever system is used by about 19 percent of American voters.

• Voting punchcards are used by about 34 percent of American voters.

• The newest generations of "touch screen" voting systems, used in about 9 percent of voting precincts, are direct recording electronic systems or DREs.

That only totals up to 90%, and this page doesn't account for the remaining 10% so far as I see just scanning through it.


ON EDIT: It may be the way the last one is worded "9% of voting precincts" which is throwing things off. It would depend upon which precincts--what is the POPULATION percentage of that 9%?? And why did they word it that way when the other are worded "percent of American voteres"????

But they don't give precise definitions of what that means.
http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=2100

• The Scripps Howard News Service has estimated that 25 percent of Americans will be using the same voting machines they did in 2000.

• According to nonpartisan electionline.org, almost 30 percent of American voters will be able to vote electronically in November — only a 17 percent increase from four years ago.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/30/magazine/30IDEA.html?ei=5070&en=93bc11488b4fac26&ex=1100408400&pagewanted=print&position=

This fall, as many as 20 percent of American voters will be able to cast their ballots on A.T.M.-style electronic voting machines. But to put it mildly, these machines -- where you simply touch a screen and a computer registers your vote -- have not inspired much confidence lately. North Carolina officials recently learned that a software glitch destroyed 436 e-ballots in early voting for the 2002 general election. In a Florida state election this past January, 134 votes apparently weren't recorded -- and this was in a race decided by a margin of only 12 votes. Since most of the machines don't leave any paper trail, there's no way to determine what actually happened. Most alarmingly, perhaps, California's secretary of state recently charged that Diebold -- the industry leader -- had installed uncertified voting machines and then misled state officials about it.

Electronic voting has much to offer, but will we ever be able to trust these buggy machines? Yes, we will -- but only if we adopt the techniques of the ''open source'' geeks.