>From the Government Computer News....
GAO investigation of e-voting problems requested 11/11/04 By William Jackson, GCN Staff Half-a-dozen Democratic congressmen have asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate reports of voting irregularities in the Nov. 2 election, many of them involving electronic touch-screen voting machines. A Nov. 5 letter to comptroller general David M. Walker cited news reports of problems in California, Florida, North Carolina and Ohio in which thousands of votes were erroneously recorded, deleted or added. "We are literally receiving additional reports every minute," the representatives said in the letter. The request was followed up with a second letter Nov. 8 referencing additional complaints reported on public Web sites and received in congressional offices. A bill introduced by Rep. Rush Holt of New Jersey, who signed the letters requesting a GAO study, would require voting machines to produce paper ballots or other auditable records for manual recounts. That bill, HR 2239 has not been acted on since being referred to the House Committee on House Administration in May 2003. Complete article.... http://tinyurl.com/3px7n New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler placed a form on his Web site Wednesday to let individuals submit complaints and comments on the election. Nadler, one of the signers of the letters, is the ranking member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution. http://www.house.gov/nadler/issue-gao.shtml _________________________________________________ "When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you." -From the movie "Tin Cup" _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
