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Too Stupid to Get It Right
RECEIVED Thu., July 15, 2004
Dear Editor,
I've heard in the news that Common Cause is all aflutter about electronic voting. Concerned that there is no paper trail. I suspect the real concern is that the computer machines give the same answer every time you hit the enter button.
Since they were saying it here in San Antonio, I suspect the recent District 28 kerfuffle is at the root of it. In the demo primary Ciro Rodriguez of SA was pitted against Henry Cuellar of Laredo. Ciro was ahead on polling day but lost on the recount. "Suspicious" ballots were found in Webb and Zapata counties sufficient to boost Cuellar. In Bexar County, however, the numbers from computer ballot boxes did not change.
Bexar County upgraded to computer machines after a series of election-night fiascoes. The touch-screen units are easy to use and they offer a recap of your ballot before you confirm.
There is, to me as a conservative, something very amusing about continuous whining about voter disenfranchisement from demos when talking about demo precincts in demo counties with demo election officials. Sort of proclaims "We're too stupid to get it right!"
I've heard in the news that Common Cause is all aflutter about electronic voting. Concerned that there is no paper trail. I suspect the real concern is that the computer machines give the same answer every time you hit the enter button.
Since they were saying it here in San Antonio, I suspect the recent District 28 kerfuffle is at the root of it. In the demo primary Ciro Rodriguez of SA was pitted against Henry Cuellar of Laredo. Ciro was ahead on polling day but lost on the recount. "Suspicious" ballots were found in Webb and Zapata counties sufficient to boost Cuellar. In Bexar County, however, the numbers from computer ballot boxes did not change.
Bexar County upgraded to computer machines after a series of election-night fiascoes. The touch-screen units are easy to use and they offer a recap of your ballot before you confirm.
There is, to me as a conservative, something very amusing about continuous whining about voter disenfranchisement from demos when talking about demo precincts in demo counties with demo election officials. Sort of proclaims "We're too stupid to get it right!"
George Wilson
San Antonio
San Antonio
