Sun Jan 25, 2009 at 02:57:50 PM EST
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Legislation to indefinitely suspend a voter verified paper trail is up in the Assembly State Government Committee on Monday (Even though the only place you can currently read the bill is here on Blue Jersey). Joan Quigley is pushing the effort and she tells us why:"We simply don't have the money," said Assemblywoman Joan Quigley, D-Hudson. "We just can't do it right now. I don't think most people in New Jersey would see this as a priority.
"I know there will be a number of angry people there who feel that we are shortchanging the state's voters, although most of the people I talk with feel that it works. There haven't been major problems. The potential is there, but there haven't been major problems," Quigley said.
Just because she thinks the people of New Jersey don't have this as a priority, doesn't mean it shouldn't be one. The whole point of a paper trail is to ensure there are no major problems. How would you even know if you had any up until now, there's no paper trail to check. Quigley even acknowledges the potential for problems and questions about security have been raised: A computer expert from Princeton University has found New Jersey's voting machines can be easily hacked, while a professor from Carnegie Mellon University scoffed at the findings, according to two divergent reports released yesterday by the Superior Court judge presiding over the case challenging the machines' reliability.
The lack of past problems does not mean we will have the same luck in the future. We can continue to hope, but I'm guessing that if some of our officials were in a close, questionable election with problems, it would become a little bit more of a priority. Unfortunately, it'll be too late once there is a problem. |
| Jason Springer :: Quote of the Day: "There haven't been any serious problems" |
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