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Evoting in India, Maryland

Posted by michael on from the vote-as-often-as-you-want-we'll-make-more dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "EVMs are back in the news again. The BBC is reporting on the use of over a million Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) in India for Parliamentary elections in April. With a billion people and an electorate of 668 million, it is by far the largest democratic election exercise in the world. A picture of an EVM is provided." And Kierthos writes "An article on Yahoo! News mentions that Maryland's voting terminals will be wrapped in tamper proof tape, which 'just protects that malicious code physically', according to computer scientist Avi Rubin. Also mentioned are California's ongoing system of e-voting, as well as a point on whether Diebold should be banned in California after using uncertified software in last October's election."

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  1. Tamper-proof tape? by Derling+Whirvish · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh riiighht. All you have to do to prevent tampering with an on-line computer is to "wrap it in tamper-proof tape." Sure. Uh huh.

    1. Re:Tamper-proof tape? by NeuroManson · · Score: 4, Funny

      That reminds me of the good ol' days when people would put condoms on their floppy disks to prevent themselves from catching computer viruses.

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  2. Don't you realize... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...everything's secure when you use Duct Tape!

  3. Re:hmm by BuckaBooBob · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maryland's voting terminals will be wrapped in tamper proof tape.

    Cool does it come with that Magic Server Pixie Dust and a Universal Business Adapter (That actually does require an adapter to connect to a unix machine) and some of those other cool Gizmo's on IBM's commericals?

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  4. Solution to the e-voting problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    1. Discard all electronic voting machines
    2. Use paper ballots
    3. Complain about your life, blame everything on the elected official
    4. Repeat in four years

    This provides identical results at greatly reduced cost and time.

  5. Re:Why is the vote of the illerterate that importa by Gyan · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the end, what is the value of an uninformed vote?

    George W. Bush will be happy to tell you.