2/1 More on why electronic voting is bad
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/7849090.htm
\_ Evoting has lots of problems but if you think standard paper voting
hasn't been rigged in *every* election since 1800 you're only
fooling yourself. For a serious case where it mattered, see the
Nixon/Kennedy race. The mob had more dead people voting and voting
often than were registered to vote in their Chicago precints.
\_ Vote early, vote often! Seriously, though, so what? We're
supposed to let e-voting off the hook because previous voting
systems have been open to corruption? That makes no sense.
\_ Not at all. I'm only saying what I'm saying which is that
the current scheme is no better and probably much worse in
many ways. I'd prefer that all voting was 100% clean but
it isn't and anyone saying evoting is bad because it doesn't
come to the high standards of paper voting is only fooling
themselves. Vote outcomes are so important that if there is
any way at all to rig them, they will be. I'm perfectly
happy with paper voting and I agree that evoting is just a
waste right now but the moment evoting is more secure than
paper we should spend the money on it as a nation. I make
no excuses or exceptions for any voting system that can be
rigged.
\_ Right on, except that I think that it's not that people
are necessarily surprised that evoting is easily riggable,
it's that there's no point in updating a system if you're
not going to make an actual attempt at fixing it. It also
seems to me that while paper receipts are not going to
make the system tamper-proof, they'll go a long way to
making the system more tamper-resistant.
\_ I'm with you. We're in total agreement. Is that even
allowed on the motd? |