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Electronic Voting in the News
heymarcel writes "After a negative review of the Diebold voting machines by the State Gaming Control Board, it looks like Nevada has gone with a competitor for the upcoming election. And Secretary of State Dean Heller is requiring paper receipts. According to the Associated Press story, Nevada is the first state to do so." There's another story about Nevada voting machines as well. zapf writes "It appears that the major e-Voting machine vendors have banded together to form the 'Election Technology Council.'" Reader SemperUbi writes: "Demand for a voter-verified audit trail is really gaining momentum these days. The Voter Verification Act, introduced yesterday by Senator Bob Graham (D-Florida), would require a voter-verified paper audit trail, ban the use of 'undisclosed' software and wireless communications for voting machines, and require mandatory surprise recounts -- all in time for the November 2004 election. Rep. Holt's HR2239 in the House requires much the same thing. Resistance to both bills may focus on the aggressive timetable, but the effort is worth it -- as Warren Slocum once said, democracy ain't cheap. Take that, Diebold!" And finally, a Maryland newspaper dredges up an internal Diebold email that recommends gouging Maryland if the state wants paper printouts for its Diebold voting system.
Geeks 1.
Diebold 0.
We did it.
What happened to the goons that were supposed to hush this under the rug? They failed?
What's so bad about being lazy? What if there was a war and nobody showed up?
"The candidate you are about to choose is not supported by us and may cause instablity in your state: Are you sure you want to continue?"
It is reported that the American people are very happy to have receiptless electronic voting machines. No dissenting reports can be found...
E-Voting machines.
Big business hides the memos,
Congress wants answers...
Rule #1 -- Politics always trumps technology.
I had $500 on Diebold!
...guaranteed to give you 25% more republican votes or your money back
"I'd really like to have [yin-yang] explained to me anatomically, with the assumption that almost any place it would be would be painful," she said.
Even if you do produce a paper receipt, most people won't even look at it. Even those who do look at it will probably just toss it in the trash bin on the way out. We're such a consumer culture, the average american tosses printed receipts several times a day.
Now if we printed out a decorative "Don't blame me, I voted for so-and-so" certifiate people could use to impress their friends (seeing as voting is for the most part a social event nowadays for a lot of people, so they can discuss politics at cocktail parties)...
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Crudely Drawn Games
I agree...counting isn't rocket science. You'd think they discovered how to add 1+1 for the first time.
No advantages, except for the fact that no one will have to decipher what the computer 'meant.'
"Well, first it filled in this circle, but then looks like it erased it an drew a frowny face over the candidate's name and penciled in 'L4M3r'..."
"require mandatory surprise recounts"
Mandated surprises tend to lose that "surprising" quality.
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. -Oscar Wilde
Think of thugs standing outside a poor district's voting place demanding to see the identifying key in your example...
Fine, allow just in time rechecking... allowing you to poll and select on the spot an appropriate key to show to the strong arm morons... You vote for Nader... query the system for a key with a vote for gore... write that key down... and show it to the strong arm guy
Sorry, the idea of thugs standing outside a polling place demanding to see votes for Gore is just too funny...
Holy Shit! My Rep actually did something both intelligent & useful. Time to send the "Good Boy" fax.
Jaysyn
There is a war going on for your mind.
"I'm not a voter but I play one on slashdot."
Yes, Jeb Bush plotted to STEAL the Florida vote, and he disenfranchised the Florida voters. This is why the voters hated him so much that they voted him out in a landslide in the last Gubernatorial election in that state.
I almost want to move to Vegas now.
There are some other reasons to move to Vegas, too, you know.
When this is actually fixed, maybe I'll be less cynical. Maybe.
Oh, it's fixed alright. It's been fixed from the start.
Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
Iraqui elections were managed by Diebold...
Chernobyl had a Diebold emergency system.
Titanic and Exxon Valdez had a Diebold iceberg detection system.
how long until