janelane wrote:

DELRAY BEACH, Fla., Feb. 1 — Gov. Charlie Crist announced plans on Thursday to abandon the touch-screen voting machines that many of Florida’s counties installed after the disputed 2000 presidential election. The state will instead adopt a system of casting paper ballots counted by scanning machines in time for the 2008 presidential election.

AWESOME! Death to Diebold!

-janelane

/conspiracy hat ON

Wonder who will provide/run the counting machines?

/conspiracy hat OFF

If Florida still uses faulty data for scrubbing their voter roles, this new counting method is probably much ado about nothing. A good step for sure, I followed the Diebold machinations very closely back in the day, but I still think the best method of counting votes is by hand.

Here's my preferred method: After the votes are cast, have representatives from each party count all votes by hand. You can distribute the task across precincts to accomplish this. Party A counts all votes, Party B counts them, etc... At the end, you make sure every Party's tally equals that of the others. It doesn't? Recount. It does? Now you have a pretty good idea that everyone agrees with the count.

RE: Florida Shifting to Voting System With Paper Trail - New York Times