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House To Vote On Paper Trail and OSS Voting Bill

Posted by kdawson on from the good-start dept.

Spamicles writes "A vote is imminent for the bill that is a direct response to problems in the 2006 elections. This legislation would create a paper trail for elections, require a manual audit of every federal election, and open the source code of voting software in certain circumstances. The bill currently has 216 co-sponsors and is expected to be brought to the floor of the House and passed any day."

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  1. 216 co-sponsors?? by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 2, Funny

    What is this, AOL?

    Me too!!

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    No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
  2. Re:Regardless of political affiliation... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    $10 may not sound like much, but it is for some people. Seriously. $10 will buy enough crack to stay high for thirty minutes. That's nothing to sneeze at.
  3. Re:I'm Canadian by Red+Flayer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Counting votes is not a serial process. It can be highly parallelized. The fact that you have 10 times as many people also means you have 10 times as many people to count them
    Why not have one vote-counter per ballot cast, for the ultimate parallelization? Then counting the votes would be near-instantaneous. It would work something like this:

    1. Enter the booth.
    2. A random ballot from a previous voter pops up. You count the vote, and enter the result into a touchscreen separate from the touchscreen you use to cast your own ballot.
    3. You cast your ballot via the 2nd touchscreen.
    Repeat 1-3 for all voters in district; have the district election supervisor count the last ballot.
    5. A program then tabulates all the counted votes according to what the counters reported.

    This would guarantee that every vote is counted by hand, and wouldn't take any time post-election to do the recount.

    I think this would make everyone happy. Does anyone see any problems with this?
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  4. Re:Spellcheck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ewe muss bee knew hear...