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Subject: FYI: BREAKING: NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE RECOMMENDSSCRAPPING TOUCH-SCREEN VOTING SYSTEMS!
Kudos to NIST on making this assessment, DW NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE TO
RECOMMEND SCRAPPING DIRECT RECORDING ELECTRONIC TOUCH-SCREEN VOTING
MACHINES! Huge news. Michael Hickens of InternetNews.com has the scoop. Here's the
highlights…
This is incredibly tremendous news! Appropos of the point we tried to make loudly in an article
here at BRAD BLOG earlier today, in
which we tried to make clear that paper trails on touch-screen machines
(versus paper ballots as used with optical-scan or hand-counted
systems) are not an adequate solution to the nation's — or even Florida
13's — current voting dysfunction, NIST agrees that paper trails don't
cut it:
…And, of course, BRAD BLOG Guest Blogger and erstwhile election
watchdog/champion John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
— previously a supporter of the so-called Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail
(VVPAT) "solution", such as the one which would be standardized by
Rep. Rush Holt's HR550 election reform legislation — concurs now that VVPAT on
touch-screen and DRE systems is no longer a viable option. Joining a growing group of folks who have
changed their view on this point in the wake of the various disasters of 2006's
Election Meltdown, he's quoted by Hickens thusly:
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