Money For Paper Ballots & Paper Trails
Sean Flaherty, chairman of Iowans for Voting Integrity, has reported on the progress of legislation in Iowa. We appear about to phase out touchscreen DREs, but to spend more money on the dreadful DREs in the meantime by putting paper trail printers on them. It’s up to your auditor whether you dump the DREs now or pour more money down their rathole first. You should weigh in with your auditor.
Sean is thinking ahead, too, reminding us that routine manual recounts (audits!) are still needed whenever computers do the initial counting:
Iowa still has no audit requirement, and as the Brennan Center’s Task Force on Voting System Security observed last year, without an automatic routine audit, paper ballots are of questionable security value.
Sean has done Herculean work on your behalf. Send him and the rest of IVI a “Thank You”.