Pennsylvania: suit filed against electronic voting without paper trail

[kpete]

Voter's rights advocates sue over paperless voting systems in Pa.
PATRICK WALTERS
Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA - Voter advocates filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to stop most Pennsylvania counties from using "paperless" electronic voting machines, saying that such systems leave no paper record that could be used in the event of a recount, audit or other problem.

The suit asks the state's Commonwealth Court to decertify machines being used in 58 of Pennsylvania's 67 counties. The plaintiffs argue that the state should replace paperless machines with systems in which voters fill out a bubble sheet that is then fed into a machine for quick scanning.

"Whatever the initial promise may have been for electronic voting, we now know ... that they are simply not ready for prime time," said Lowell Finley, an attorney with the nonprofit group Voter Action, which has been involved in similar suits nationwide.

A similar lawsuit forced New Mexico to use "optical scan" ballots earlier this year, Finley said. Other suits involving paper-based voting systems have been filed in Arizona, Colorado and California.

http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/15279524.htm

[Stevepol]

1. Needs to be one of these in every state. K&R!!

[Nightjock]

2. This PA lawsuit determines

whether Santorum goes back to the senate. Not election day.

If the lawsuit fails, your vote does not count Pennsylvania!

bushco cannot afford a dem majority because that means investigation into all of thier crimes.

[UrbScotty]

3. This needs to happen in Ohio (nt)