November 09, 2005

"State: Happy trails to paperless e-voting"

"Elaine Ginnold awoke in a darkened home, no electricity -- a harrowing way for the Alameda County elections chief to launch Tuesday's special election with fully electronic-voting machines.

No power, no votes.

Ginnold muttered an epithet but relaxed later when driving past her local polling place, a fire station with its lights blazing. Her Election Day opened with the usual headaches: no-shows of poll workers, polling places still locked and a smattering of technical problems -- inoperable electronic voter cards and a few inoperable e-voting machines.

The days of those last glitches, and worrying about power outages, are on their way out. The era of paperless, fully computerized voting machineryended Tuesday in California.

Ginnold for one isn't sorry to see a return to paper balloting.

"I'm looking forward to it," she said. "I don't see that we're going backward at all."

Here is the article.

Posted by Randy Riddle at November 9, 2005 09:11 AM