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Cringley on E-voting
alfredo writes "I am shocked that this story from I Cringley hasn't been sent in and posted at Slashdot. I thought the slashdot crowd would be all over this. Robert X Cringley has a take on the voting scandal a bit different than what we have seen in the past, and promises more to come."
If anything encourages those 70-year-olds not to vote it's electronics. I think we should port this technology to the dmv, medicare, and the internet.
I am shocked that this story from I Cringley hasn't been sent in and posted at Slashdot :)
It has...
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
The repeated bastardization of this columnist's name makes me cringe.
it was based on specifications set by independent election Hot Cocks
Surely you must've known someone was bound to ask about this.
There are two kinds of people: 1) those who start arrays with one and 1) those who start them with zero.
don't worry, US congress will buy a bunch of this by 2004.
It protect the voter against mistakes.
Like voting for Bush?
Yeah, I've seen it. It's called a receipt. When I go to a restaurant and pay with a credit card, the waitress brings me back a slip of paper with the total on it. If I see that she's got $1590 on there instead of $15.90, I kindly request that she do a recount.
Slashdotters are growing in influence. Now we bring puny servers to their knees, AND help focus public attention as alternative press, leading "mainstream" media to cover news stories that matter to Nerds. Congratulate yourself on helping the leaders to follow the people.
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make install -not war
also, it's disturbing that there is no audit trail of the submitter's keystrokes. For all we know he typed the name correctly but somewhere in the black box of his Win XP system and internet transit through unknown routers the letters were (purposefully?) munged!
...what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Here is how I see it: Diebold makes sale kiosks for Home Depot, ATMs for Citybank, and voting machines for the government. Diebold comes to each customer and says, "We can save you XXX dollars on every machine if you don't need a paper printer in it".
What do the customers say?
Home Depot manager: "XXX dollars and no paper? Are you nuts? We'll lose ten times that on fraud!"
Citybank manager: "XXX dollars and no paper? Are you a complete moron? We'll lose hundred times that on lawsuits!"
Government bureaucrat (he does not care about fraud - someone gets elected one way or the other, the bureaucrat will have his job, and he can't get sued): "XXX dollars? What a great idea!"
And, a "miserable failure" at that.
"Champagne for my real friends - and real pain for my sham friends!" http://ericblade.postalboard.com/