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Can America Trust Electronic Voting?

Posted by michael on from the as-far-as-you-can-throw-it dept.

A anonymous reader writes: "The Sacramento Bee wrote an excellent article about the issues surrounding electronic voting. It was written by the Yolo County clerk/recorder and a professor of law at UC Davis. They quote sources such as Peter G. Neumann and Diebold's president Walden O'Dell."

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  1. Hasn't Australia just mandated a paper trail by Space+cowboy · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... for their next election, which seems to be the best option to me. Voter gets a piece of paper (anonymous) which records his/her vote. The slip has to be left at the polling station in a sealed container, and in the event of "it screwed up", the slips get counted...

    Simon.

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    Physicists get Hadrons!
  2. Except he was not appointed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Bush is by far the worst president ever appointed by the Supreme Court. --maddox.xmission.com "

    Whether or not he is the worst president, you are accepting someone's lie as fact. The Supreme Court did not appoint him. The Electoral College did, however, through the usual process of election.

    All the Supreme Court did was refuse to bother with a frivolous appeal filed with them. They in effect did nothing and let the real results of the election stand.