With the price of oil so low and still sliding, all those green energy startups that started up in the last couple of years are now bleeding money and have little chance for profitability. Their only hope is massive government subsidies or a miraculous economic recovery to bring back the price of oil to $100+ a barrel.
A lot of the states using the Diebold machines do require them to have paper receipts. The one I used did have a paper receipt that allows you to confirm the machine did not do a mistake. Basically at the end of the touch screen voting, it will print out all your votes and force you to confirm them. You can not take the receipt with you or modify it as it is behind glass in the machine. But THERE IS A PAPER TRAIL. Unless you live in a dumb state that does not require paper trails, all this talk of hacking elections is really off base. Just the spreading of ignorant paranoia. Election officials can go back through the receipts and confirm the machine's results. And many of the states also require this check on a small percentage of the machines to make sure they were programmed correctly.
The idea of getting a receipt to take with you is useless. People can easily manipulate the receipts and it would also invalidate the principle of private voting. It would just perturbate the problems of mail-in ballots. Many campaign managers go to senior care centers, homeless shelters, and similar places and basically "help" fill out mail-in ballots for people to sign. I can see an underground vote buying system taking root if the machine gave out take home receipts.
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I have seen attempts to do this before and even bought one (albeit it was just point-to-point and designed specifically for printers). I would not buy it until some independent testing was done it (Tom's hardware style). Basically my HP printer would work for a week or two and then it would just return with communication error until I power cycled everything.
I remember a movement to make an official WUSB (wireless USB) protocol, but it did not seem to go anywhere.
If Belkin finally made a version that actually works on most hardware without glitches, hurray to them. It is a very difficult task because of the way USB works.
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With the price of oil so low and still sliding, all those green energy startups that started up in the last couple of years are now bleeding money and have little chance for profitability. Their only hope is massive government subsidies or a miraculous economic recovery to bring back the price of oil to $100+ a barrel.
A lot of the states using the Diebold machines do require them to have paper receipts. The one I used did have a paper receipt that allows you to confirm the machine did not do a mistake. Basically at the end of the touch screen voting, it will print out all your votes and force you to confirm them. You can not take the receipt with you or modify it as it is behind glass in the machine. But THERE IS A PAPER TRAIL. Unless you live in a dumb state that does not require paper trails, all this talk of hacking elections is really off base. Just the spreading of ignorant paranoia. Election officials can go back through the receipts and confirm the machine's results. And many of the states also require this check on a small percentage of the machines to make sure they were programmed correctly. The idea of getting a receipt to take with you is useless. People can easily manipulate the receipts and it would also invalidate the principle of private voting. It would just perturbate the problems of mail-in ballots. Many campaign managers go to senior care centers, homeless shelters, and similar places and basically "help" fill out mail-in ballots for people to sign. I can see an underground vote buying system taking root if the machine gave out take home receipts.
I have seen attempts to do this before and even bought one (albeit it was just point-to-point and designed specifically for printers). I would not buy it until some independent testing was done it (Tom's hardware style). Basically my HP printer would work for a week or two and then it would just return with communication error until I power cycled everything. I remember a movement to make an official WUSB (wireless USB) protocol, but it did not seem to go anywhere. If Belkin finally made a version that actually works on most hardware without glitches, hurray to them. It is a very difficult task because of the way USB works.