Sunday, September 09, 2007
Voting Integrity
From the New York Times a piece on voting and voting machines. I have no real issue with voting machines so long as they produce a paper audit trail. I do have an issue with any use of technology in sensitive applications (like voting) where appropriate mitigations are not taken to reduce the risk of tampering. Voting is one right that we have, which should not be put at risk simply because technology is ascendant.
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i encourage you to do more reading on this issue. it is of utmost importance, but little understood.
the trouble with hr811, which has really split the election integrity movement, is that a paper trail is not a ballot. it is not even hard to program these things to print one thing, and count another.
the real problem, imho, is that private corporations in many cases don't even sell these machines, but lease them. and service them. and we the people do not have the right to examine them. google ion sancho- even election officials are not allowed to test the damn things.
hava created a deep swamp. the way that it emerged on the scene, right after the 2000 election, and was passed with almost zero public discussion ought to give us all the willies.
check out-dan rather the trouble with touchscreens
available on google video.
What you said gets to the heart of my issue: using risky devices/methods with inadequate protections to mitigate against tampering.
what better way to get "we the people" to stay home than to let us know that our vote may not be counted?even if not a single vote is ever changed, the damage to our democracy is already great.
and the machines are just a small part of the ways that elections are rigged in this country.
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