The State of Electronic Voting In the 2008 US Elections

Geek Satire writes "Voting works only if you believe your vote gets counted accurately. The 2008 US elections have avoided many well-known problems of the 2004 and 2000 elections, but many problems remain. O'Reilly News interviewed Dr. Barbara Simons, advisor to the Federal Election Assistance Commission, to review electronic voting in the 2008 US elections, discussing the physical security of storing and maintaining election machines, the move from electronic back to paper ballots, and why open source voting machines don't necessarily solve problems of bugs, backdoors, and audits."

Comments

Voting is a joke now

[thetoadwarrior]

Purely by the fact you can't guarantee that every American's vote counts makes it a joke.

Mind you, McLame wouldn't have won either way, thank god.

Re:Voting is a joke now

[thetoadwarrior]

It's a moot point. Back when everything was on paper if you weren't sure then you could recount them.

Bush's 2k1 election wasn't the first time a president won with the electoral college instead of the popular vote but it's the first time it couldn't have been fully verified thanks to electronic voting.

Re:Voting is a joke now

[retchdog]

No it isn't. Being physically frail; senile and (allegedly) cancerous has a measurable effect on one's performance.

It's still kind of rude to bring up, especially now. Maybe thetoadwarrior is one of these people: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbObFCadlqQ

And if anyone even dares bring up the average African-American IQ, it's plain to see that Obama's IQ is at least one or two sigmas above the average whitey.

Re:Help America Vote?

[zxnos]

forget that guy, he is obviously a republican trolling as a democrat since he only thinks in terms of black and white... ...still not sure what his post was supposed to mean. since there weren't any major problems (that i heard of) the prior act must have worked.