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Indian Voting Machines Compared with Diebold

Posted by michael on from the he-who-does-not-learn-from-history dept.

Hanuman_Ji writes "The Indian general elections, 2004 is now complete - and the result is an upset. As reported earlier, this election was conducted entirely through Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). This article gives a nice overview of the machines used in this process and also adds a comparison with the Diebold machines. More information is also available at the equipment manufacturer's website."

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  1. Mod alert (parent really is funny) by joggle · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What's with all the overrated mods? This is funny! Are there some Indian moderators who are sensitive to jokes like this? Doesn't seem racist/slanderous to me (honestly).

    1. Re:Mod alert (parent really is funny) by strictnein · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      What's with all the overrated mods?

      Yeah, I'm kind of confused too. And I'm kind of unclear how a post moderated to 0 is overrated. I was making a joke about it, but I think it actually is somewhat of a valid point.

      Name recognition is huge in any election.

      I've been thinking for awhile that the whole "moderation" thing doesn't seem to be translating fully to those that don't speak English natively. There seems to be an increasingly larger number of non-US people posting on slashdot (which is good) and there also seems to be an increasing amount of moderation that makes absolutely no sense. And, as we all know, what's funny in one society is not in another. Except for beating up mimes. That's funny everywhere.

      Oh well.

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    2. Re:Mod alert (parent really is funny) by joggle · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      And I'm kind of unclear how a post moderated to 0 is overrated.

      I agree. The worst part is that overrated mods can't be meta-moderated. I wish the system was set up so that an overrated mod could only deduct additional mod points than you initially start with. It shouldn't be possible to use them in such a cowardly way.