|
Dissolve into Evergreens
|
||||
|
New Friends I've been negligent in adding some ne... Separation of Church and God Reuters | Latest ... One person, one church Today I drove by the ne... The New Projector History repeating? Yes. The Importance of...: Th... Now back to work you serfs! KOTV - The News On Si... David Grenier: Gay Marriage: "If they are really... The Jesus Fetish I can't help but have a cynical ... Dropping the A Bomb President Calls for Constitut... A few things... I still can't stand cooking on el... Justin Oldham - Politics and Patriotism
Wilco The Flaming Lips The New Radicals John Mayer Zero 7 Dream Theater Radiohead Death Cab for Cutie The Notwist O.S.I. Ani Difranco The Shins Elliott Smith Badly Drawn Boy Chroma Key Coheed and Cambria The Streets Andrew Bird Sufjan Stevens Atom Site Feed 
|
3.03.2004
Touchy Feely IHT: Voting without paper trail creates security risk The new Diebold touch screen voting machines were used in today's Super Tuesday election. I wonder if they had to a install last minute software upgrade to allow the machine to count Democratic votes. The fact that these machines don't have any hard copy to verify the accuracy of the vote is either a huge design flaw or a deliberate oversight. If you think about it for two seconds you might realize that the system requirements for voting machines should include ease of use (check) and an alternate way for first the voter and second the election officials to verify the vote. Without both these requirements I think its safe to say that the system is deeply flawed. Without a paper record of every vote or some other way to verify voters' choices after the fact, these experts warn, elections may lose the public's trust. I feel that simply printing out a receipt is insufficient. The touch screen system should print out a record of the voters choices as indicated and then that record is read by a separate machine after the voter has a chance to look over the votes indicated. Oklahoma has a great system. The voter indicates their vote by drawing a black line next to the vote they want and then a optical scanner reads those votes. There is a record of the voters intent available should any problems occur. I hope Oklahoma doesn't feel compelled to go touch screen. | |
About Me
Any Box 
|
||
|
Dissolve into Evergreens
|
||||
