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NYT Says Paperless Voting A Serious Problem
joshdick writes "In an editorial today, the NYTimes comes out strongly in favor of a paper trail for all elections, supporting a recent lobbying effort by Common Cause and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to pass H.R. 550. 'Electronic voting has been rolled out nationwide without necessary safeguards. The machines' computers can be programmed to steal votes from one candidate and give them to another. There are also many ways hackers can break in to tamper with the count. Polls show that many Americans do not trust electronic voting in its current form; such doubts are a serious problem in a democracy.'"
It is reported that sticking paper clips in your eyes is not good either.
You don't need them hooked up to any network except to upload results. Just hook them up then, and that will, in most cases, solve the problem.
Show this to your friends and family that don't know what a real hacker is
Get over it.
Did you somehow miss the 10,000 slashdot discussions where someone brought up this exact question and someone pointed out that the point of a paper trail is to provide an independent recount (i.e. the paper only records the vote and is kept in a box like a regular ballot)?
Welcome to slashdot, #531275! Where have you been?
End Women's Suffrage NOW!
Females are way too emotional and politically uninterested to handle the responsibility of voting. Allowing them to continue having a say in politics is the road to increased socialism, increased nanny-state regulation, and the eventual decline of civilization as fear and feel-good legislation grind society's productive and innovative sectors to a halt.