This sounds like a very reasonable proposal. I bet Jeb! shoots it down like a voter-mandated initiative.
Gov. Jeb Bush should increase voter confidence by calling Florida’s Legislature into special session to order an independent audit of the state’s voting system, a group of South Florida activists said Tuesday.
The organization, which calls itself the Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition, wants audits of all touch- screen electronic voting machines used in 15 Florida counties during the Aug. 31 primary.
The other 52 counties use optical-scan machines, in which voters mark a box on a paper ballot, which is then read by machine.
“He can either be the leader in election reform or he can stick his head in the sand and do nothing,” said Sandy Wayland, spokeswoman for the coalition.
The group wants to be sure the machines record the touch-screen vote, tabulate it accurately and produce a paper report showing what happened.
What I particularly enjoyed about this story was the unintended irony of Jeb!s lackey referring to people whose goal it is to undermine the confidence of the voters – and he wasn’t talking about the Republcan Party!