N.C. study committee to examine electronic voting expanded

N.C. study committee to examine electronic voting expanded

http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041119/APN/411191064&cachetime=5

The Associated Press

November 19. 2004 6:44PM

Legislative leaders created a special committee Friday to examine
electronic voting machines in an effort to ensure that all votes cast
in future elections are counted properly.

The 13-member Joint Select Committee on Electronic Voting Systems
replaces a smaller study commission that had been authorized in July
but had never met.

Interest has grown in the subject after Carteret County lost more than
4,400 ballots from a touch-screen voting network that failed to record
them after it exceeded its storage capacity.

The lost ballots are the focus of protests filed by candidates for
state agriculture commissioner and superintendent of public
instruction. Republican commissioner candidate Steve Troxler leads
Democrat Britt Cobb by 2,287 votes - less than the total of lost
votes.

Yeah, who cares about whether the votes were counted properly in THIS election.... Sighhhhhhh

David Allen, the publisher who worked with Bev for a while has been appointed to the committee!

From the article:

"Committee members include Gary Bartlett, executive director of the state Board of Elections; David Allen, an advocate for paper voting records for ballots cast by electronic voting systems, and Rep. Jean Preston, R-Carteret. Preston was among the voters whose ballots weren't recorded by Carteret's touch-screen machines.

The date of the first committee meeting has not been announced. The panel can make recommendations to the General Assembly before it convenes in late January, with a final report to be issued by the spring of 2006.
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Go, David!

Infiltrate and educate.

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David is a smart cookie. This is great.

With all the problems NC has had in this election, and with people like David Allen officially committed to going back to paper ballots, NC will be the first state to repent, be born again and baptized in the back to the future movement of using paper ballots in elections.

NC is the state to watch. NC is the state to become wholly involved in if your desire is to get rid of those damned black boxes!

:thumbsup: for this...

Congratulations, Dave. Carry the torch for the rest of us. We're counting on you to tame this monster and protect the republic.