Thursday, June 02, 2005

Open Forum

The cell phone ban is one step closer to becoming a completely unenforcable law. The House has said OK to a bill requiring paper trail for electronic voting machines. I still prefer the old mechanical machines. They broke down from time to time, but they were accurate and easy to use.

What else is new?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Adding to the municipal campaign Web sites, Gordon Joseloff and Shelly Kassen are running for First and Second Selectmen of Westport.

Anonymous said...

As far as I know, the bill SB 55 - only applies to electronic voting machines. (I don't think anyone even makes the mechanical machines anymore, much less adaptive equipment to add paper receipts.) After a voter enters their vote, a paper receipt would appear under a window. The voter would confirm that their vote was accurately counted. If it was accurate, the receipt drops into a bin; if not, it is shredded. The voter does not walk out with a receipt. That’s my understanding of how it would work.

More on this from True Vote CT and VerifiedVoting.org.

Anonymous said...

Re: Cell phones.

I suppose I'm for these laws; the safer the better and all that. However, I would be willing to bet that dialing a phone, that is- actually looking at it, is far and away the most dangerous aspect of using a phone and driving.

Anyone forsee future laws that require voice dialing as well?