Comments on: Election Process Back To Basics https://boiseguardian.com/2008/05/05/election-process-back-to-basics/ A different slant on the news. Wed, 14 May 2008 17:13:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: bert farber https://boiseguardian.com/2008/05/05/election-process-back-to-basics/#comment-8263 Wed, 14 May 2008 17:13:21 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=914#comment-8263 I thought a De Ville was a coupe. Looks like you learn somethin’ new every day with this Guardian guy and his pitchers.

]]> By: Just a Question https://boiseguardian.com/2008/05/05/election-process-back-to-basics/#comment-8262 Fri, 09 May 2008 19:33:08 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=914#comment-8262 I agree that Bush the Younger, Bush the Thief, Bush the Incompetent, got a majority of the votes of the Supreme Court Justices. But he didn’t have a majority of the popular vote, not even in Florida.

That is why it was a coup.

]]> By: Jack https://boiseguardian.com/2008/05/05/election-process-back-to-basics/#comment-8261 Fri, 09 May 2008 16:45:55 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=914#comment-8261 A majority is not a coup.

]]> By: Just a Question https://boiseguardian.com/2008/05/05/election-process-back-to-basics/#comment-8260 Wed, 07 May 2008 11:24:27 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=914#comment-8260 When the Supreme Court stages a coup to put their candidate in power, does the quality of the paper trail matter?

Just a question

]]> By: ericn1300 https://boiseguardian.com/2008/05/05/election-process-back-to-basics/#comment-8259 Tue, 06 May 2008 21:09:30 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=914#comment-8259 I was one of the techs sent to Montana in 2006 to support the ES&S optical scanners during a tight senatorial election. The reliability and read rate was very impressive and anybody who has ever taken an SAT test already knows how to fill out the ballot. Sure there were some ballots rejected for a manual count due to mis marks and over marking but the paper trail was good with no ballots destroyed or mangled by the equipment beyond interpretation.

I have been formally trained By ES&S at their Omaha headquarters and don’t have much faith in their newer technologies like touch screen voting but I think Ada County made a wise decision in going with optical scanning. Fast, accurate and relatively problem free, but no technology choice is absolute and hand recounts will happen. At least with the system Ada County has chosen a paper trail will remain.

By the way, I do not work for ES&S, my last gig for them was a contract job, but I can give you a lot of stories about the Help America Vote Act and how it was manipulated by the vendors and lobbies who each want to provide a high priced, proprietary system and have it made mandatory across the entire U.S.A. I’m glad Ada County went with the proven after reading about the problems in other states with the newer technologies.

]]> By: Sara https://boiseguardian.com/2008/05/05/election-process-back-to-basics/#comment-8258 Tue, 06 May 2008 20:30:32 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=914#comment-8258 I never could figure out what the problem with the punchcards was. I never saw a hanging chad and the only fuss seemed to be with the morons in Palm Beach County who were Democrats that Algore got all fired up.

So now we’ve all changed to new forms of voting. Bet you anything that there will be “problems” with these optical scanners as soon as someone doesn’t get the result they wanted.

Ah – the law of unintended consequences – gotta love it.

]]>