I've been beating up my state rep on the non-recount-ablility of touch screen systems, and emailing him articles like this, for the last 2 years. I think he's tired of hearing from me.
This issue is apparently on no one's radar screen here in GA.
I don't like it either.
In San Diego, our registrar assured us that these machines were great, no problems, blah blah blah. Then when disaster struck and 30% of them couldn't be made to work early on election day, she came on a talk show and was saying how everything was fine as her phone lines were melting down from angry voters and paniced poll workers. I can't make up my mind whether she drank the Diebold Koolaide or is just an incompetent ass. And our Grand Jury just came out with a report about how the CA Attorney General was wrong to force us back to paper ballots in November, the machines will be just fine (assuming their fixes are implemented by the above-named registrar; good luck with that), yada yada yada. I'm beginning to think Diebold has developed some sort of mind control beam or something.
I hav not been following this very closely maybe I need to send off some mail too..