Now remember, Bush took Nevada by about 21,000 votes and everyone from Reid to Guinn bragged that Nevada had brand new paper trailed Sequoias statewide ....what they didn't fully explain was the truth about the machines that were in the population epicenter of Las Vegas ...LIARS, LIARS, LIARS!!!
CARSON CITY -- A Senate panel Monday questioned the need for new voting machines in the Las Vegas-area and said the county's technology might not have to be replaced.
Secretary of State Dean Heller urged the Senate Finance Committee to pass Senate Bill 501, which would allocate $15 million to buy 4,400 machines with voter-verifiable paper trails.
Two-thirds of Clark County's machines, "full-face" models, store vote results on a cartridge that can be printed out later, but voters cannot see the results when they cast their ballots.
The rest are newer models that allow immediate review by voters, Heller said. Half of the county's voters last fall cast their ballots on the new machines, while the other half used the older ones. Nevada led the nation in use of the new devices.
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http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/May-03-Tue-2005/news/26428993.htmlPaper trail’ voting system used in Nevada
Electronic ballot machines equipped with printers
The Associated Press
Updated: 9:23 p.m. ET Sept. 7, 2004
CARSON CITY, Nev. - In what could become a model for other states, Nevada voters on Tuesday became the first in the nation to cast ballots in a statewide election on computers that printed paper records of electronic ballots.
A delegation of federal election officials monitored the equipment’s debut in the state capital Tuesday, touring precincts and talking to poll workers as residents voted for congressional candidates, state legislators, school officials and judges.
Nevada’s $9.3 million voting system includes more than 2,600 computers and printers deployed in every county. California, Washington and Illinois recently passed laws requiring a paper trail for electronic ballots, and at least 20 others are considering similar legislation.
Addressing e-voting concerns
The system, developed by California-based Sequoia Voting Systems Inc., aims to address concerns that paperless touchscreen votes cannot be properly audited or recounted. As many as 50 million Americans will cast ballots in the November presidential election on electronic machines that do not produce a paper receipt of the vote.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5937115/And then we have the real problem with the old Sequoias!! Why wouldn't Nevada want to keep machines that have helped Kenny Guinn, Harry Reid and George W. Bush get elected and re-elected, all without papertrails! Read this!! This is how Bush became President again! If we had taken Nevada, we would be looking at a different election today!
When Suspicions First Arose
In 1994, I was asked to participate in an evaluation of voting systems being considered to replace the antiquated system then in use in Washoe County, Nevada. The second largest metropolitan area in our state was evaluating the products from four venders. Three of the venders offered systems that included paper ballot back up, and one did not. Our committee tested all the systems and concluded that the Sequoia Pacific should be disqualified because it did not have the necessary redundancy required to maintain voter confidence. In other words, Sequoia Pacific's equipment did not allow there to be a paper ballot recount in the event of a contested election.
Washoe County went on to purchase an optical scan system that utilized a paper ballot and a computer. It was chosen because if the computer failed, or if a recount was ordered, there were paper ballots available to verify the results of the election.
Following my participation in the evaluation process, I telephoned Clark County Commission Chairman Bruce Woodbury and Commissioner Don Schlesinger. I told them of the committee's findings and requested that Clark County carefully evaluate the purchase of an optical scan voting system and disqualify the paperless Sequoia Pacific system from contention.
In a letter written to the Washoe County Commission by Registrar of Voters Marlene Henderson, she stated "There is no way to conduct a 'recount' on the Sequoia AVC because there simply are no physical ballots to recount!"
She went on to say "The Sequoia costs 1000% more than the optical scan system and is incapable of processing absentee mail in ballots or challenged ballots forcing the purchase of a second system."
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http://www.americanmafia.com/Inside_Vegas/9-30-02_Inside_Vegas.htmlI live in a lying ASS state!!