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Inside Electronic Voting Machines
Alien54 and several other people wrote in about a couple of stories published in a New Zealand webzine: an examination of an electronic voting system, and some less interesting political speculation about it. Diebold voting systems are in fairly wide use, and apparently provide zero security to keep election officials from writing in whatever election totals they want.
Can you drop ship them to every voting precinct in the U.S. and send the bill to 1600 Pennsyvania Ave.? Thanks! GWB ps- is a check from Halliburton ok?
666-607: 6th floor apartment of the beast
...just require a literacy test prior to voting. I fail to see how anyone who can't read can responsibly vote.
I mean it. We require licenses to do all kinds of things, why not at least require a literacy standard for voting?
You know, where exit polling showed the guy elected won, not the guy selected.
Remember, when the double dip occurs, the plebians might start arguing to impose taxes on the annointed wealthy. We can't let them hurt their betters!
The US military wants to make sure that all the GI's who have been sent into a pointless overseas quagmire can still be shown to "vote" for the Chickenhawk-in-Chief, who is even now conspiring to cut their benefits. A truly secure online voting system would defeat this purpose.
Yes, I'm a vet. Yes, I'm cynical as hell about this.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.