The Announced Death of DREs is premature

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Tuesday December 05, 2006 · 3:45 PM PST

2006/12/05 · 15:45

This post deals in some obscure aspects of voting integrity that have come to light recently as a result of an article appearing in the Washington Post.

Warning: This diary is long and I don't expect many people to get through it far enough to decide to recommend. That's o.k. since it's aimed at a fairly limited audience, namely voting integrity activists in states where a paper audit trail of some type is still not required. Fortunately that's a shrinking market, but the job won't be finished until it's down to zero. So if you know someone in this game, please forward the link. They'll thank you for it.

Mostly, this is background information for readers that feel the WaPo article is going to create some brief but important media traction for the ensuing debate over paperless DREs. We can use this attention to get our case better heard. But there is a need to first correct some misperceptions that led many folks to take the article as (startling) good news. The subject was a report prepared in connection with a Help America Vote Act (HAVA) requirement dealing with national standards for voting systems.

We start about here -

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Friday November 10, 2006 · 1:12 PM PST

2006/11/10 · 13:12

I am at best an observer at Kos, with too little time to write. But Gov. Howard Dean is a personal hero, and he's taken his lumps here and elsewhere. Mostly elsewhere, thank you.

Gov. Dean's principal contribution is paradigmatic in nature; his fifty state strategy has the long term goal of 'converting the converted', that is, winning back the folks we've lost over the past thirty years. You don't do this strictly through the electoral process. Winning elections is simply the measure of your success. And while you get your grades every two years, I think Gov. Dean would agree that the real work occurs in between.
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