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Dave Barry on Electronic Voting
eggoeater writes "With the general interest Slashdot has with electronic voting machines, I thought we'd all enjoy reviewing Dave Barry's take on touch-screen voting machines and debating the merits of police officers carrying lightsabers."
I probably haven't been paying attention, but is this really true ? I really can't imagine hacking something using a gameboy... anyone has an article about this? Wasn't able to find it with google...
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Actually, the best thing about the article was visualizing all three of the candidates standing on lawns with biting ants. Hmmm... wonder if I can get some
Jason Feeblehonker 2004
bumperstickers printed up?
You can't talk about Wikipedia's flaws on Wikipedia
It works better than expected; in fact, without electronic voting we would never have guessed that nobody votes against the incumbent candidates. Its really interesting how people love our leaders so much that not a single vote is cast against them.
Back with messy paper, the vote was much closer. Now we know that vote is and was wrong.
Hokey religions and ancient punch-cards are no match for a good electronic voting machine in your booth.
I'm going to join the police. I mean, the tasers were always cool, but ... lightsabers? Dude, sign me up!
I'll bet he gets at least a few letters complaining about the sugar beet intelligence comparison - from sugar beets.
Brazil? Does that mean the voting machines have wacky fresnel lenses on them?
'Cos, that'd be cool.
Just use the polls on slashdot for voting. Somehow I suspect this would result in CowboyNeal becoming president.
There is no Diebold in Brazil. The CEO of Diebold promised to deliver votes to Bush. So, if there ever is a Diebold machine in Brazil, Bush will get votes there. He won't be elected, however, since Brazilians think Osama bin Laden is less violent and more reasonable, and a lot more intelligent.
Why settle for the lesser of two evils?
-- "You can lead a yak to water, but you can't teach an old dog to make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke" - Opus
Actually, we outsourced jedi knoghts to India a long time ago.
I think he's got some points being funny though. I mean, how many people do you know who becoome so obsessed with this election, that even a mention of "a different" canidate will get you a glare?
I had a friend who used to be like this, one of those "defeat Bush at all cost" types. Then, as the campaigns wore on, he became more and more jaded, realizing that Kerry probably wouldn't be much better at fixing all the things that were wrong with the Bush administration. He considered voting for Nader, but thought that that would just be throwing his vote away and playing into Bush's hands.
Then he remembered he was a Canadian citizen and couldn't vote here anyway.
I am Sartre of the Borg. Existence is futile.
It is a bad idea to give people receipts for elections because then you can actually buy votes. In the current system, you cannot prove you actually voted one way or the other. With receipts, well, you can. This would actually, however, make your vote worth something...
A NYC lawyer blogs. http://www.chuangblog.com/
I see no advantage in cost, speed, security, or accuracy with moving from the system we are currently using to some ethereal electronic touch-screen system.
The E-voting machines have a number of advantages. Since you mentioned speed, hey just poke the tallying computer and it spits out the totals. That's fast. Need a recount? Poke it again, and it'll give you exactly the same numbers again. Is that great or what? No messy disputes. There are further advantages for election officials using Diebold machines: Enter the proper two digit code, and you can change the totals to more accurately represent what your community really intended. Oh, and there's an easy way to change the logs, so pesky reporters and other snoops won't cause problems. These new machines have tons of features that make them far superior to older voting methods. It's Luddites like you who are holding back progress and the election of my favorite candidate. :)
They died for oil. Register as a Republican and you'll get a secret PIN to punch into the gas pump.
I'm really enjoying the 87 cent gas.
Stop the world; I need to get off.