We like to say in New Hampshire that our recounts have not yet uncovered any problems with our Diebold optical scanning machines. OK. Point taken. But every report published on this technology (and the company itself) makes a clear case that clean elections and Diebold voting machines don't mix. And anyway, secret vote counting machines are forbidden by the New Hampshire Constitution. It's time to act Canadian and get rid of unreliable voting technology in New Hampshire.

Source of article below: engadget

While the U.S. mid-term elections are going full steam ahead with a myriad of maybe-reliable and not-so-reliable electronic voting systems in place, Quebec is pulling back from its adventures in e-voting, after the province's chief electoral officer Marcel Blanchet delivered a harsh report on the 2005 municipal elections.

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The voting machines were used in some 140 municipalities in the province last year but, according to the report, they went down like bad plate of poutine, suffering from blackouts and transmission errors, resulting in unreliable results -- although he adds that there's nothing that can be done about the results now except to move on. He also reported that the electronic voting machines weren't any faster or more economical than manual counting.

As a result of the report, Quebec's Municipal Affairs Minister Nathalie Normandeau is accepting Blanchet's recommendation that the current moratorium on electronic voting put in place after last year's elections be maintained, apparently indefinitely.