February 06, 2007

"Holt pushes paper to back up election results"

"With Democrats controlling Congress, Rep. Rush Holt says he's optimistic about achieving his longstanding legislative priority this year -- requiring electronic voting machines to have paper backups so election results can be verified.

The Hopewell Township Democrat plans to reintroduce his paper-backup bill on Monday with 150 Democratic and Republican co-sponsors. Garden State lawmakers -- all Democrats -- who've signed on to the bill are Reps. Frank Pallone, Donald Payne, Bill Pascrell, Rob Andrews and Steve Rothman.

A total of 222 House Democrats and Republicans co-sponsored a similar bill Holt introduced in the previous Congress, when Republicans were in the majority, but it went nowhere. The legislation is widely expected to become law, with Democratic leaders tending to favor requiring a paper trail, analysts say."

The article is here.

Posted by Randy Riddle at February 6, 2007 12:47 PM