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Berkeley Researchers Analyze Florida Voting Patterns
empraptor writes "Researchers at UC Berkeley have crunched numbers and determined that 130,000-260,000 excess votes went to Bush in Florida. They have held a conference and posted their findings online. You can find articles on their research from CNet, Wired News, and many other sources. While the research used statistical analysis based on past elections and demographics, how else do you verify that a paperless voting system is working properly?"
1. Kerry lost. Period. Even he thinks these miscount conspiracies don't add up.
2. My vote (no pun intended) is for stateless touchscreen voting machines that print out readable paper ballots which are counted in a traditional manner.
I could cast a vote for A, have the screen verify that I am voting for A, receive a printed receipt that tells me I voted for A, and STILL have that vote count for B within the black box.
The printed receipt should be returned to the voter, who should check that it contains the correct info. and then deposit it in a traditional ballot box. The ballot boxes should remain sealed except in the event of a recount.
Jason.
The point is that paper ballots can be re-counted if there's a need.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
This report would be much more credible if it had been performed at University of Texas - Austin or Bob Jones University. The liberal bias from that bastian of socialism that is Berkeley stains the whole idea of the study!
...and it should be known by now
Slashdot is so bias. Never is there anything saying that bush did anything right.
Maybe that's because he really is that bad.
Mod down people who tell people how to mod in their sigs
Wait -- Berkeley posts a report favoring Democrats?
You must be joking, that can't possibly happen.
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