E-Voting: a Flawed Solution in Search of a Problem

blorg writes "In the promised follow-up to last-week's I, Cringely column on E-Voting (discussed on Slashdot here), Robert X. Cringely discusses his proposed solution to the electronic voting mess. The ideas in this piece have all appeared already on Slashdot, but this stands as a well-argued condensation of them into a single article. In the article, he looks briefly at possible solutions for the auditability problem but ultimately argues that technology introduces more problems into elections than it solves. Instead, he suggests that elections can be run quicker, cheaper and fairer using the paper-based Canadian model."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Needs more ninjas

Re:Cringely is a fraud

[Golias]

I think the slashcode should allow a filter that allows you to not display any reponse to a post which was moderated up as "Funny", because 90% of replies are either:

1. People trying to riff on the joke for a funny mod of their own, usually by making a less-funny comment, such as a similar pop-culture reference with a loose tie to what was said.

2. People who completely missed the joke and replied as if the post was serious, like you just did.

The "precious bodily fluids" comment should have been a dead give-away. Even if you never saw "Dr. Strangelove" and therefore missed it... if somebody says something you don't understand, they are probably telling a joke you don't get, and you probably should not bother to reply.

Moving back onto the topic: The US is a nation of almost 300 Million people, and voting is constitutionally handled by 50 different states according to their own policies. It's a much bigger bureaucratic problem to cope with than Canada, England, or any other small third-world country.

(See? There was another joke there. If you missed it, don't bother with a response.)