How Would You Design the Voting Technology?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday August 21, 2003 @05:05PM from the ack!-politics dept.

Bob Glickstein asks: "Punch-card ballot machines are now universally reviled, and we techies all know the perils of electronic ones. But I haven't seen anyone talk about a better solution. It's gotta be inexpensive, rugged, reliable, accurate, verifiable, tamper-resistant, simple to use, and secret. Verifying a vote tally should not result in TV news images of rooms full of election officials, squinting at ambiguous marks on a piece of paper. What contraption can possibly meet all these criteria?"

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Slashdot polls by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-21 17:15 · Score: 5, Funny

Slashdot FAQ claims the Slashdot polls are secure for industrial use and reliable, beating Gallup and CNN in precision. So here's a template for you:

Who would you like to see the next US President?

George W. Bush

Howard Dean

Ralph Nader

I am Canadian, you insensitive clod.

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