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Study: New Jersey e-Vote Experiment After Sandy a Disaster

Posted by samzenpus on from the vote-and-vote-often dept.

TMB writes Al Jazeera reports on a Rutgers study about e-voting in New Jersey after Superstorm Sandy, and it is damning. It concludes that the middle of a natural disaster is the last time to try switching to a new voting method, especially one rife with such problems as e-voting. The table of contents includes such section headings as "Internet voting is not safe, should not be made legal, and should never be incorporated into emergency measures."

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  1. Re:Al Jazeera? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I bet you think that's an intelligent comment.

    You're more likely to get good journalism out of Al Jazeera than you are out of any of the cable news outlets in the US today. I don't watch any of them, but was surprised to find that Al Jazeera was the most popular news outlet for people who invest money for a living, like money managers, stock brokers, etc. They might have all of the stations playing, but Al Jazeera will be the one with the sound up. The reason I was given? because they're the most unbiased.

    I was taken aback, but I guess it makes sense.

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