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NYT Says Paperless Voting A Serious Problem

Posted by Zonk on from the no-see-ums dept.

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.'"

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  1. Hmmmmm by Timesprout · · Score: 4, Funny

    A paper comes out in favour of a paper trail. I think I see a vested interest.

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  2. Cynical View by BearJ · · Score: 2, Funny

    The cynic in me sees this as kind of funny. It's up to the elected officials to change this right? The very officials elected by these machine...

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  3. Re:the paper trail...... by neil.pearce · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ha. I also used to think that ATMs would be super secure, well-designed, expertly-coded and superbly-tested beasts.

    Then, I got off a train (circa 2000) at Stratford, East London to view a pair of HSBC cashpoint machines, clearly running some WindowsNT embedded (they'd crashed back to "the desktop") showing a modal dialog "WE HAVE FUCKED THE BANK!" (No joke)

  4. IARC=? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I am radio-controlled?

  5. Re:Wrong by putch · · Score: 2, Funny

    he can't tell you who you voted for. but now he can order that $5,000 Alienware system he's always wanted with your credit card.

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  6. Re:Wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Enjoy your free subscription to Man Love Monthly.

  7. Hey, it works for American Idol! by bmalia · · Score: 2, Funny

    To vote for Bush:
    Dial 1-888-xxx-xx01
    or text the word VOTE to XX01

    To vote for Kerry:
    Dial 1-888-xxx-xx02
    or text the word VOTE to XX02

    Vote as many times as you like!
    Regular text messaging charges will apply.

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  8. Re:Wrong by JDevers · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know deep in his mom's basement you just got a really bad evil eye...

  9. Works for me by clovis · · Score: 2, Funny

    So the winner of the election will be the person that the best hackers go for? Sounds better than what we've been getting.
    I, for one, look forward to having Putin be our next president.