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> In 2007, Sarasota voted to use it in future municipal elections, but the state never certified the necessary software so it couldn't be used. That's another
by dane-pgp 5y ago
> In 2007, Sarasota voted to use it in future municipal elections, but the state never certified the necessary software so it couldn't be used.
That's another reason to oppose voting machines: it puts the power into the hands of state officials to selectively withhold approval of machines that enable reforms they don't want.
(I'm assuming that if the officials assessed that the reform would help their party, they'd rubberstamp the software without delay, perhaps with an expiry date so they could change their mind later).
- specialist 5y agoTwo yes and: States have to certify the whole stack. Even without (electronic) voting machines, the state can deny the ballot production, tabulation, etc, softwares. There are no longer political parties as the layperson understands it. Oftentimes, local and state orgs are antogonists with their own electeds. Electeds mosdef don't feel any obligation to those orgs. Rather, electeds protect their own power, their caucus, their fund raising cartels, and mosdef their powerful donors and lobbyists. More often than not, against the expressed positions of the orgs. Source: member of my local party's exec board, was also a candidate for office.