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The State of Electronic Voting in Georgia

Posted by michael on from the vote-early-and-often dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The AJC is reporting on the current state of electronic voting in Georgia. The article discusses both sides of the debate and mentions Bev Harris and her work at Black Box Voting. Is touch screen voting the best solution available or is a conspiracy afoot?"

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  1. Talking with your representives *does* help by clenhart · · Score: 5, Informative
    Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) counts himself among the suspicious. The civil rights veteran is the co-sponsor of a bill to require the machines to verify voters' choices on paper.

    I spoke to Rep. Lewis about this issue at one of his "Meet and Greet" sessions several months ago. Contacting your representative *does* have an impact.

  2. regd privacy etc by abhisarda · · Score: 5, Informative

    Read this article from the NYT.

    There are many on slashdot who won't even register for nyt. Just read this and it will make you privacy panaroids cringe.

    "This is a complicated business. Each party's databank has the name of every one of the 168 million or so registered voters in the country, cross-indexed with phone numbers, addresses, voting history, income range and so on -- up to as many as several hundred points of data on each voter. The information has been acquired from state voter-registration rolls, census reports, consumer data-mining companies and direct marketing vendors. The parties have also amassed detailed information about the political and social beliefs that you might have shared with canvassers who have phoned or knocked on the door over the past few years. While specifics vary, a typical voter profile like my own, for instance, would show my age, address, phone numbers; which elections I've voted in over the past 10 or 15 years and whether I've ever voted on an absentee ballot; and my e-mail address. It would include my New Jersey party registration (Democrat), whether I've ever made a political donation (none that I recall), my approximate income, my ethnicity, my marital status and the number of children living in my house. Thanks to the ready availability of subscriber lists, mortgage data and product warranty information, the parties might use records of the newspapers I read (this one), the computer I work on (a Macintosh), the men's-wear catalogs I receive (Brooks Brothers, Land's End) and the loan-to-value ratio of my home."

    And you guys spew vitriol over website registrations? That's the least of your worries...