Today's PR just confirms Grant Evans' importance to Identix, and the new CEO's recognition of his role. One little piece of information in the PR -- that IDX is working with "the world's top suppliers of mobile computers" makes me wonder just who, besides Toshiba, fits in that category?
And, Brad, OT: Today's New York Times has a piece analyzing the "undervote" and "spoiled ballot" rate in punch card jurisdictions versus jurisdictions with more modern technologies, and found in Florida that punch card voters "undervoted" or "overvoted" according to machine tallies almost 4% of the time, compared to 1.6% of the time with optical scanners. (The Times also reports that in Connecticut, where you can't vote twice because the voting machine won't let you, less than one half of one percent of the voters didn't vote in the Presidential race.) Not surprisingly, the poorer and more Democratic areas of Florida use the obsolete punch card systems, and the Times analyzed the voting patterns and estimated that Gore lost 7,000 votes because of the punch card/demographic relationship. You can bet this article will be waved in front of the Florida judge hearing the election contest.
Yeah, the Florida legislature is really going to look good if they try to overturn the courts. Incidentally, the Democrats already have a legal argument ready for this maneuver: The Florida constitution, which isn't preempted on this subject, requires all elections to result from a direct popular vote. Maybe the legislature is going to rewrite the Florida constitution, while they are at it. |
