If we can't trust electronic voting, why should we trust electronic registration? Just asking...

This was in our local Delaware newspaper today. I'm wondering how any electronic devices used within the elections process can ever be trusted? Suppose some "glitch" is used to switch party affiliations or polling locations to cause confusion? Or maybe people start getting dropped or added at will? I don't know the answers, I'm just now unable to trust electonics in my voting process at all. The headline is about paper trails but the message is about electronic registrations.


Calio: Paper voting backup is likely
Machines probably will need to be set up to record votes on paper as a backup for electronic data tabulations
By PATRICK JACKSON, The News Journal
Posted Thursday, February 8, 2007 at 4:50 pm

DOVER -- A new electronic voter registration system will cut the odds that people signing up to vote at Division of Motor Vehicles locations around the state get lost in the bureaucratic shuffle, Election Commissioner Frank Calio said today.

Calio also told members of the Joint Finance Committee that the state will probably have to refit its voting machines in coming years to provide paper trails for recount backups.

Finalizing the electronic registration system and the election machine refits will both fall to Calio’s successor. Calio, who leaves his post in July, told committee members reviewing Minner’s $3.24 billion budget request he has no problems with the $4 million budget Minner is proposing for his department.

The new electronic registration system, which also would be put in place in county election offices and the commissioner’s office, will eliminate the possibility that data is lost between DMV and election offices. The roughly $10,400 system is being bought with money provided through (HAVA) the federal Helping Americans Vote Act.

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070208/NEWS/70208046/1006/NEWS

I walked up and showed my card and they said but you already voted, I said no, I just got
here, you also realize that with the flick of a switch these gizmos will match with
the number that the Diebold machines said voted, soon, we will have a virtual election.

You should report the felony wherever you can, keep writing election officials about this un-investigated, unprosecuted BUT NOT UNREPORTED felony. If they did not allow you to vote then you were disfranchised on top of that and rendered, as the Founders all said, a slave. Not something to be tolerated.

they said they would "attach" a note to explain that I had not voted and let me go through
the vote process, but who knows if it is counted, but it is so easy to manipulate the system, or just push the wrong button on these things, why should I have to trust 2 machines when I vote, one that is not even handled by me. No, I did not report it
because they "let" me vote but I still have no confidence in the voting process.

Do you know of any information documenting problems specifically on the electronic registration that I can include in my letter to our elections board? I'm already talking to others about the possibility of a petition but I'd like to have some facts in hand.

Thanks for all you do and any info you have on this.