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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. No problem by Presence+Eternal · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm sure it was a smooth process, since they have every US technician to draw on for any troubleshooting.

  2. Resign, Rumsfeld ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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    1. Re:Resign, Rumsfeld ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Sorry to break it to you, but Kerry is missing a huge opportunity in not going directly for Bush. Why dawdle with Rumsfeld resignation calls when Bush impeachment is possible? I refer you to this article at Counterpunch.

  3. Re:tastes like curry!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Heh. I wonder what it's like eating an Indian bitch's pussy? Does it taste like curry?

  4. Re:tastes like curry!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    No. In fact a strict curry diet (while rare) adds a nice level of sweetness to the vaginal juices.

  5. eVoting stock spam by erroneus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I know... I'm SORRY damnit! But I've got to mention it because I have a question and this is at least vaguely related though still off-topic... I'm just hoping for an educated yes or no on this.

    Lately I have been receiving spam giving me tips that evoting stocks are predicted to be on the rise and that I should buy. Now given all the bad press evoting has been getting, and especially Diebold's behavior betraying public trust as they have... is this kind of spam basically illegal?

    That said, I will now mention my feelings on the indian evm. It sounds like the best approach. It's simple and effective. I would like to see more of an audit trail built into the machine though I suspect there is more information stored than accumulated data. The indian system is good because it's state-owned. The indian system is good because there are more people involved.

    I don't like the idea of having up-to-the second voting results. People should vote their minds and not mind the vote. I don't know how indians vote, but americans tend to vote against candidates they don't want rather that for the candidates they want. This mentality tends to shut out alternative voting such as green party, libertarian or independants.

    Anyway... let's see if I'm modded as off-topic or what?

  6. 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.