Democratic Presidentail nominees pick up on e-voting, VVPT issue.
[This is great. Those of us who support VVPT clearly have the Big Mo on our side… thank god. Sometimes common sense does carry the day. I think that this pretty much signals that the debate is over. No one is going to come out in favor of machines that theoretically could permit the vote to be rigged in a completely undetectable fashion. -Thomas]
Memory of 2000 Vote Fuels Democrats’ Florida Meeting
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
Published: December 7, 2003
AKE BUENA VISTA, Fla., Dec. 6 — Democratic presidential candidates came to this state that was at the center of the 2000 presidential battle and stoked the embers of that fight on Saturday, declaring that Republicans had swiped the White House last time and vowing not to let it happen again in 2004.
Nearly 4,000 Florida Democrats, meeting at the party’s annual state convention here in Disney World, whooped and cheered as Democrat after Democrat invoked the disputed circumstances of President Bush’s victory.
They also warned against new election technologies, including Internet voting machines, that they argued could produce more disputed elections.
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Both Mr. Kerry and Mr. Edwards promised to fight any attempts to adopt an electronic touch-screen voting machine developed by Diebold Elections Systems, arguing that the paperless machines were open to abuse.
Mr. Edwards denounced touch-screen voting machines, saying that “a lot of people think they are just as bad as butterfly ballots.”
And Mr. Kerry said: “When I win the nomination, I’m going to put together the strongest legal team that we’ve ever had in this country and we are going to challenge, we’re going to start with a challenge to the Diebold election system.”