A computer that can't count would definitely be a hard sell.

NAtional: Financial Services Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on Elections LINK

"Ensuring the Integrity of Elections"

Seems to be mostly pro-evoting witnesses. Shafting ahead... again.

(Randolph Hite is an unknown factor to me while Avi Rubin means well but still seems to have that implicit faith that "e-voting can be done right somehow"...)

How much are the electronic election machines worth as scrap iron, copper, etc ... probably not worth the cost to take them to the dump.

With Sequoia up for sale, and now possibly Diebold, I would be very concerned about the quality of elections in the next few years. These companies will experience potentially severe staff shakeups - Sequoia and ES&S have recently laid off employees. They depend on loyal employees working horrendous hours during the runup to elections and the pending sale of one and possibly two major vendors does not bode well for quality elections.

So here's a question: has the relentless stone-throwing from election activists helped election quality, or in actuality made it more difficult to conduct a quality election?

Ah, Tom Wilson and the "It's all your fault!" argument.

We've been expecting you

But that was a particularly unbright argument to essay... because now you must prove, somehow, a causative link between "e-voting" and "quality elections"...

... good luck with that.

Tom Wilson:

The less Diebold employees milling around Utah, the better. Most people in Utah are honest. It's our leaders that are corrupt.