Holt is a very bad bill

Holt is a very bad bill

Posted Sep 5, 2007 20:08 UTC (Wed) by mgb (subscriber, #3226)
Parent article: E-voting reform bill scheduled for House vote this week (ars technica)

The Holt Bill is a devious piece of legislation which requires a "verifiable" paper trail but allows the actual counting to be done electronically with no requirement that the "verifiable" paper trail ever be verified.

California Secretary of State Debra Bowen is not supporting Holt. Representative Dennis Kucinich has withdrawn support for Holt. The Brad Blog - which has been first to uncover many of voting shenanigans of the last few years - adamantly opposes Holt. Ellen Theisen of VotersUnite.Org who supported earlier versions of Holt opposes recent versions because it will "legitimize that 'ballots' need not be counted" and "endorse the practice of secret vote-counting."

It is of course being pushed by politicians of the same parties which have raised gerrymandering to such a fine art in this country.

EFF has been on the wrong side of issues before but few as serious as this.

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