If You Didn't Already Think Fran Dzik Had Gone Republican..

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May 25, 2005

If You Didn't Already Think Fran Dzik Had Gone Republican..

..read this.

Say, that r'minds me: I read once that when Diebold (or maybe it was another firm, or a group of them) were asked about providing paper receipts for voters, they claimed that the technology just wasn't there to support that.

I would give them the benefit and say that that's fair, except there's one funny thing: when I go to my bank's ATM, my transactions are processed correctly and I get a neat little laser-printed receipt showing everything I did. The ATM's manufacturer? Diebold.

Maybe now we can ask Fran Dzik why we can't get electronic voting machines that print paper receipts. I'm thinking that all that's then needed on election days is sufficient supervision to ensure that the printers don't run out of paper. If something were to jam or lock up, there could be a back-up ballot system administered by the poll workers. So what's the problem?

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