ACM Eyes Policy Position on Electronic Voting

while(true) writes "The ACM is preparing to take a policy position on electronic voting in government elections. It has a poll page up to get feedback from it's members and where they also explain their proposed position. The proposed position calls for a paper trail to ensure a physical record of the vote. Go there and place your vote if you are a member. The ACM Public Policy Committee could be a valuable ally in many questions that are dear to Slashdot readers in the US. They have already spoken out on issues such as the DMCA, DRM, and private policing of P2P networks."

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Heh,

[Grant29]

If they can't trust electronic voting, how will they trust thier online poll?

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[mattdm]

Yes, it'd be good to do that with all computer-related acronyms. That's very important on a non-technical web site like slashdot. Why, in just the few last day's articles, we should have seen:

• China Deploys IPv6 [Internet Protocol version Six] Network
• NVidia Releases Linux [Linus + Unix] Drivers Supporting 4K [four kilobyte -- approximately four thousand characters] Stacks
• YRO [Your Rights Online]: China Will Monitor, Censor SMS [Short Message Service] Messages
• Apple: Alpine to Release iPod [um, "Internet Pod"?] Interface in Autumn [Fall] 2004
• New Radar [Radio Detection And Ranging] Sees Through Walls
• HDTV [High Definition Television] Comes to the Mac [Macintosh]
• Dept. of Homeland Security Says to Stop Using IE [Internet Explorer]
• Daleks [not an acronym] Exterminated From New Dr. [Doctor] Who

And of course, let's not forget

• Developers: On PHP [PHP [PHP [PHP [PHP [PHP [PHP [...]: Hypertext Preprocessor]: Hypertext Preprocessor]: Hypertext Preprocessor]: Hypertext Preprocessor]: Hypertext Preprocessor]: Hypertext Preprocessor] and Scaling

Oh, how much better Slashdot would be.