more on delaying the recall to move in electronic voting

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu
> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:33:11 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Jonathan Weinberg <weinberg () mail msen com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] delaying the recall to move in electronic voting
> X-Sender: weinberg () conch msen com
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
>
>
>         Well, no.  The state of California had already agreed that by
> March 1, 2004, it would end the use of pre-scored punch card (aka "hanging
> chad") voting machines, on the ground that those machines present an
> unacceptably high risk of errors and uncounted votes.  The urban,
> disproportionately minority counties currently using pre-scored punch
> cards can replace them by March 1 with any other state-approved
> vote-counting technology, including Datavote or optical-scan machines.
> Those two are no more "electronic" than pre-scored punch cards, but they
> are more reliable.  Today's decision, if it stands, will delay the recall
> vote until after that transition.
>
> Jon Weinberg
> Professor of Law, Wayne State University
> weinberg () msen com
>
>
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Dave Farber wrote:
> > >Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu
> > >Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:53:49 -0700 (PDT)
> > >From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <jhall () SIMS Berkeley EDU>
> > >To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>, Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
> > >
> > >They are delaying the recall to move in electronic voting... yikes!
> > >Court Delays California Recall Vote
> > >http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A13550-2003Sep15
> > >-----------------------------------------------------------------
> > >Joseph Lorenzo Hall
> > >Graduate Student                        http://pobox.com/~joehall

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