Can Florida’s Election Officials Ignore the Law?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of national groups concerned with voting integrity filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a seminal e-voting case brought by Florida Congressman Robert Wexler and others. Florida law requires manual recounts in close races. Rep. Wexler's case argues that when Florida election officials purchased touchscreen voting machines that do not leave a paper trail, they prevented true manual recounts and violated this law. The Congressman also argues that the touchscreen voting machines violate federal constitutional law.
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3 comments:
Can't argue with the logic of this one. If there's no paper trail, what constitutes a manual recount? Has any of y'all read the law to see how manual recount is defined?
I hate that weasel Wexler, but he may have a point here.
No, I haven't read the law, but I've been paying attention to electronic voting issues for some time now.
And earlier that that, too.
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