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Smooth Paper-Backed e-Voting In Nevada

Posted by timothy on from the march-of-progress dept.

LVRyan writes "The AP via Yahoo is reporting on Nevada's new touchscreen voting machines that also leave a full paper trail. They were used in Tuesday's primaries with few problems. I had a chance to use the machine myself, and was happy with the clear verification the paper trail provides for the voter and in the case of a recount. No hanging chads here!"

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  1. makes a lot of sense, actually by dfenstrate · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because of gambling. Nevada's got so many video gaming machines/slot machines that they're rather adept at investigating and regulating such machinery as a state.

    Or so I'd imagine.

    Basically, the knowledge required to run & regulate the gambling industries electronics honestly would be useful for voting machines.

    Paper trail verifiable instantly by the voter? I'm all for it!

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    Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be the name of a store, not a government agency.
  2. Slashdot by AdamBLang · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why isn't this on the front page of Slashdot instead of that Michael Moore article?

  3. Two definitions by roystgnr · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My definition would be roughly: "Any candidate can request a recount of the paper trail from any voting machines", which (assuming the candidates weren't forced to pay for the recount cost unless they requested a large fraction of machines to be recounted and didn't find any major discrepancies) would make it extremely hard to cheat the system.

    Their definition appears to be "Nevada's system ... requires county registrars to randomly select a small percentage of machines -- from 1 percent to 3 percent of a county's total -- and compare printed records with the vote totals taken from computers' memory cartridges after polls close." That's just as good, as long as that "random selection" is made either by a provably tamperproof random number generator (hard to do right) or by each the candidates submitting random numbers to be XORed (easy to do right).