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Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:33:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan Weinberg <weinberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] delaying the recall to move in electronic voting
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To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxx
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Dave Farber wrote:
> >Delivered-To: dfarber+@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:53:49 -0700 (PDT)
> >From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <jhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>, Declan McCullagh <declan@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> >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
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> >Joseph Lorenzo Hall
> >Graduate Student http://pobox.com/~joehall