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California to Require Paper Voter Receipt
DDumitru writes "Wired reports
that California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley will require all electronic
voting systems be equipped with a voter-verifiable paper receipt. This receipt
will not be retained by the voter, but deposited at the polls and may be used
to audit electronic election results.
All new voting system installed after July 1, 2005 must include the new printers.
Existing systems, including the systems already installed in four counties must
be retrofitted by July 2006.
It looks like the public outcry about Diebold and other voting equipment manufacturers
has been heard, at least in a very major market for these machines in the US.
It should be very difficult for other states to not follow suit."
Will Diebold voting machines should now carry warnings that state, "This voting machine contains technology known by the State of California to be harmful to Democracy"?
Staff #1: "The Think Tank has lots of ideas, we're going through them case-by-case for viability"
Staff #2: "Look at this other country, they have a good implementation, we can modify it and try and solve the problems it has."
Staff #3: "Here are a list of commercial vendors, they all seem to have quality products except for one - Diabolic I think their name is?"
Important Guy: "No, we've tried them, what a shambles."
Staff #4: "I read some guy's Slashdot journal. How about you all shut the hell up and we do what he says? Screw your multi-million dollar deals"
Aye, fucking right. Why the hell would they be scouring slashdot for some idea of pompous preacher who thinks "I thought of that first. I'm so l33t."
PS this is a joke, although it does seem to come across as quite abrasive.
This idea was invented by Shampoo.
Because if George W. Bush does not become re-elected, they can send Governor Schwarzenegger back in time to terminate the Democrat president.
Yeah, and of course the CIA, being the honest and independent source of information that it is, would tell you that this "democratic tradition" is a bit shaky right now...
Don't whistle while you're pissing.
Isn't that everywhere?
Or you could dig a tunnel under the vote station and use a saw to make a hole under the box where all the paper votes are kept. Then when a paper gets fed to the box, you will take it and replace it with another vote of your liking. Don't forgot to wear a tinfoil hat during the operation.
Nutz!
Unclench your sweaty hand from the crack pipe, deposit it carefully on the table in front of you and then slowly back away.
Ward
. Silence! Be thankful thy species is unpalatable! .
Canada... you mean that country that harbors terrorists intent on killing americans?
Been watching Fox News, I see.