[ale] OT: Electronic Voting in GA

[Christopher Ness]

On Saturday 19 October 2002 11:23 am, Joseph A Knapka wrote:
>diting a state's old-style mechanical lever machines?
>
> With mechanical voting machines you have an absolutely irrefutable
> physical representation of each voter's vote. With any automated
> system, you need some way to be sure that there isn't some code
> in there that says, "No matter what buttons the voters press,
> record 65% of the vote for candidate A and distribute the
> remainder randomly among the other candidates."
>

Remember the little applets that used to circulate in e-mail where you 
couldn't put your mouse on the button and click?

 They only hope I have about the touch screen ballot is that the computer 
programmers like the people on this board have a tendency to be Libertarian, 
Republican, individualists and thinkers. But then again, programmers work for 
Microsoft too...


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