computerworld.com— Are some touch-screen voting machines really "flipping" votes from one candidate to another, or are the voters who claim their votes are being changed just wrong?
Oct 31, 2008View in Crawl 4
Here in Canada, we have a system where we have to go our nearest voting place and must present 2 id's & sign, & then vote...online voting, too much at stake, it's better when real people vote in person. How hard is it to go outside and vote? A simple X on a piece of paper really verifying the person voting & who hasn't.
The problem with e-Voting, is that there's no proof when you're done. Paper voting is the only way we can have definitive proof in the event that we want to challenge the results.
Every mass produced voting machine has failed multiple security audits done by professional security researchers. These machines should not be used in an election. If your local elections official authorized the purchase of these machines, you should vote them out of office. If your local elections official chose a voting machine that does not produce a paper audit trail, you should vote them out of office and then follow them out into the street and harangue them for at least a block. And then you should slap yourself upside the head for not thinking that your local elections are "important" and allowing that person to get into office in the first place.Paper-verifiable voting can certainly also be gamed, but not with the crazy ease or widespread effect of voting machines.
djodorgOct 31, 2008
Here in Canada, we have a system where we have to go our nearest voting place and must present 2 id's & sign, & then vote...online voting, too much at stake, it's better when real people vote in person. How hard is it to go outside and vote? A simple X on a piece of paper really verifying the person voting & who hasn't.
Closed AccountOct 31, 2008
Of course, just get new voters and leave the machines be!
stupotaceOct 31, 2008
The problem with e-Voting, is that there's no proof when you're done. Paper voting is the only way we can have definitive proof in the event that we want to challenge the results.
padraic2112Oct 31, 2008
Every mass produced voting machine has failed multiple security audits done by professional security researchers. These machines should not be used in an election. If your local elections official authorized the purchase of these machines, you should vote them out of office. If your local elections official chose a voting machine that does not produce a paper audit trail, you should vote them out of office and then follow them out into the street and harangue them for at least a block. And then you should slap yourself upside the head for not thinking that your local elections are "important" and allowing that person to get into office in the first place.Paper-verifiable voting can certainly also be gamed, but not with the crazy ease or widespread effect of voting machines.
imronburgundy83Oct 31, 2008
Yeah, the machines are designed for educated voters, not idiots that don't have a clue about the candidates' policies.
sockpuppetsOct 31, 2008
That's why Americans invented 2-ply, so we only need one roll.
hadizOct 31, 2008
Because it's in the hands of the government.