Comments on: Judge “embarrassed” by state’s violation of HAVA http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2007/12/20/judge-embarrassed-by-states-violation-of-hava/ Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:00:17 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: ed http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2007/12/20/judge-embarrassed-by-states-violation-of-hava/comment-page-1/#comment-26715 ed Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:32:15 +0000 http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2007/12/20/judge-embarrassed-by-states-violation-of-hava/#comment-26715 Interesting. Too bad the original article couldn't delineate the realities of the situation. Interesting. Too bad the original article couldn’t delineate the realities of the situation.

]]> By: Arlene Montemarano http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2007/12/20/judge-embarrassed-by-states-violation-of-hava/comment-page-1/#comment-26627 Arlene Montemarano Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:47:39 +0000 http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2007/12/20/judge-embarrassed-by-states-violation-of-hava/#comment-26627 The judge may be embarrassed because of New York's reluctance to jump in and spend millions on complicated, buggy, completely hackable computer systems, but I am much more embarrassed at Maryland, where I live now. We DID take the plunge for $100 million with a terrible result: maintenance costs through the roof, paperless touchscreen machines that no one trusts, which we are stuck with. Had we been cautious as New York has shown itself to be, we would be $100 million richer, and we would probably be voting on paper ballots now, a system controlled by the people, and not corporate vendors with their own agendas. We took the WRONG road. The judge may be embarrassed because of New York’s reluctance to jump in and spend millions on complicated, buggy, completely hackable computer systems, but I am much more embarrassed at Maryland, where I live now. We DID take the plunge for $100 million with a terrible result: maintenance costs through the roof, paperless touchscreen machines that no one trusts, which we are stuck with.

Had we been cautious as New York has shown itself to be, we would be $100 million richer, and we would probably be voting on paper ballots now, a system controlled by the people, and not corporate vendors with their own agendas.

We took the WRONG road.

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