Happy [paper] trails
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By Amie Parnes
Posted at 02:53 PM on February 13, 2007
Sen. Bill Nelson never ever wants a repeat of the 2000 election debacle that made the term "pregant chad" a late-night joke for weeks after voters hit the polls. So the Florida Democrat introduced a bill today that would ban paperless voting across the nation and require all electronic voting systems to print out a paper record to catch any mistakes.
(FYI...Florida and more than 20 other states do not require voting machines to produce a paper record.)
"If Congress doesn't get this done, I'm afraid our democracy could die from lack of legitimacy," Nelson said.
Earlier this month, Gov. Charlie Crist proposed spending more than $32.5 million to replace the Florida's touch-screen voting machines with optical scanners which could produce a paper record of votes. Nelson said today, he couldn't agree more. "Let us never have another election after which citizens are left to doubt its legitimacy," he said.
Posted at 02:53 PM on February 13, 2007
Sen. Bill Nelson never ever wants a repeat of the 2000 election debacle that made the term "pregant chad" a late-night joke for weeks after voters hit the polls. So the Florida Democrat introduced a bill today that would ban paperless voting across the nation and require all electronic voting systems to print out a paper record to catch any mistakes.
(FYI...Florida and more than 20 other states do not require voting machines to produce a paper record.)
"If Congress doesn't get this done, I'm afraid our democracy could die from lack of legitimacy," Nelson said.
Earlier this month, Gov. Charlie Crist proposed spending more than $32.5 million to replace the Florida's touch-screen voting machines with optical scanners which could produce a paper record of votes. Nelson said today, he couldn't agree more. "Let us never have another election after which citizens are left to doubt its legitimacy," he said.
