Just as newspapers used their headlines to lead their readers in how they wanted them to understand the California Field Poll mentioned in yesterday’s DVN, the voting industry’s trade group has attempted to do the same. The Election Technology Council reads the poll as saying 82% of the voters polled are confident in the vote counting process. In fact, only 44% have great confidence in the process. The ETC also ignores the rest of the poll which shows that 32% of the respondents have the most confidence in paper ballots while 31% have the most confidence in touch-screen voting and an equal number, 31%, have the most confidence in punch-card voting. So, while Michelle Shafer and David Beirne of the ETC seem to like to add findings together to make a point, we can show that 63% of the respondents like paper based voting systems and have little confidence in touch-screen voting.
NAtional: Election Technology Council: Recent Polling Confirms Voter Confidence Remains Steady
http://www.electiontech.org/documents/VoterConfidenceRemainsSteady.pdf
CA: Riverside County - Panel suggests interim voting system for Riverside County
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/08/24/news/californian/21_10_188_23_07.txt
CA: San Diego Paper Sees Voter Confidence in Elections Where Others See Vote of No Confidence
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/san-diego-paper.html
CT: League, registrars are sponsoring program on new voting technology
http://www.acorn-online.com/news/publish/redding/21903.shtml
CT: Conn. Secretary of State Using Technology to Reach Young Voters
http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/133217
CT: Norwich - Elections Panel Finalizes Norwich Registrars' Fines
http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=31c98e85-7a76-4f50-94b9-aba7ac8696d3
MO: Voter Beware
http://www.websterkirkwoodtimes.com/1editorialbody.lasso?-token.folder=2007-08-24&-token.story=69451.113117&-token.subpub=
MS: No technology this time for counting absentee ballots
http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp?ID=249510&pub=1&div=News
PA: Northampton County - Old junk now jewel
County to use lever machines for election
http://www.pennlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-12/1187841816172530.xml&coll=2
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