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

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."

Comments

Reports inconclusive

[davydagger]

So basicly New Jersey fucked up implementation, because they made everything possible that could go wrong, go wrong, then complain about it going wrong, and blamed the idea for their gross incompetence....

yep.

Re:Reports inconclusive

[Jane Q. Public]

and blamed the idea for their gross incompetence....

I don't dispute that they may have been grossly incompetent. But that doesn't change the fact that the idea is fundamentally unsound, if for no other reason than that there are vastly too many things that could go wrong. (Among them, things that don't accidentally go wrong but which someone can make go wrong.)

I agree with that line in the report, on all 3 counts:

Internet voting is not safe, should not be made legal, and should never be incorporated into emergency measures.

Re:Reports inconclusive

[davydagger]

There is no pretense of democracy left, because it would be horribly embarassing when democracies didn't break out. I think we are back to "git teh terrists", and "they say bad things about the US".

Re:Sandy was not a superstorm

[tomhath]

Christie did everything right after the hurricane by working with FEMA. Blanco and Nagin did everything wrong by keeping FEMA out.

Everything you need to know

[PopeRatzo]

Just look at the top three posts from Brad Friedman's blog (Brad is the foremost blogger on the topic of electronic voting and fair elections in the US):

http://www.bradblog.com/

Here are the three headlines as of right now:

Touch-Screen Votes Flip 'No' to 'Yes' on Abortion Amendment to State Constitution in TN

E-Votes Flip D to R in Texas, R to D in Illinois: More Trouble With Touch-Screens (2014 Edition)

and last but not least:

Christie Says GOP Governors Need to Win in 2014 So They Can Control 'Voting Mechanisms' in 2016

If your state has e-voting, your elections are a farce. You might as well not vote. There is overwhelming evidence that e-voting has already flipped major elections in the United States, which means e-voting machines that are currently being used, that have absolutely no paper verification, have nullified your rights as a citizen.

Re:Al Jazeera?

[PopeRatzo]

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.

Re:Al Jazeera?

[PopeRatzo]

I'm sorry, I was responding to the guy above you who was concerned about Al Jazeera being a bunch of furriners.