Voting electronically is a great idea. In theory. In practice, the only system that I would be comfortable with is a touch-screen or equivalent version of what we already have. Same polling places, same booth design. In my design, these stations are connected to a small server, which IS CONNECTED TO NOTHING ELSE. When polls close, you print the tally, seal it, hand it off, and go home. You could send it through email, but that would defeat the purpose of not going all online anyway. If you make a system closed to the outside world (read: offline), then we don't run any of the risks associated with online systems.
In that case, it wouldn't matter how ugly the MS software was, or how crappy the server was. And you wouldn't need unisys at all. Heck, you could probably just use palms or handsprings in a docking station to record your vote. This would be easier to impliment, far less expensive, and probably more reliable.
But we are talking government here. oh well...
What are the odds that a no name candidate who got virtually no votes in Palm Beach County (very populous) gets almost 3000 votes in Volusia County (not very populous), more so than nader and buchanan combined! I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but it would appear to be a huge anomoly...
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Voting electronically is a great idea. In theory. In practice, the only system that I would be comfortable with is a touch-screen or equivalent version of what we already have. Same polling places, same booth design. In my design, these stations are connected to a small server, which IS CONNECTED TO NOTHING ELSE. When polls close, you print the tally, seal it, hand it off, and go home. You could send it through email, but that would defeat the purpose of not going all online anyway. If you make a system closed to the outside world (read: offline), then we don't run any of the risks associated with online systems.
In that case, it wouldn't matter how ugly the MS software was, or how crappy the server was. And you wouldn't need unisys at all. Heck, you could probably just use palms or handsprings in a docking station to record your vote. This would be easier to impliment, far less expensive, and probably more reliable.
But we are talking government here. oh well...
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What are the odds that a no name candidate who got virtually no votes in Palm Beach County (very populous) gets almost 3000 votes in Volusia County (not very populous), more so than nader and buchanan combined! I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but it would appear to be a huge anomoly...