The Folly of Electronic Voting Booths
"Demand for Paper Trail Escalates"or the latest issue of Wired magazine.
E-voting is one of the dumbest technology ideas ever.
When speaking to a volunteer, he showed me two places where votes were placed on the machine and said he was told that there were a lot of off-site backups and the system was "virtually foolproof".
To whoever misinformed this volunteer: Would the system be foolproof if:
-there was a systemwide power failure?
-there was a short?
-there was a glitch, bug, or other software problem?
This article was not the first time I had thoughts about E-voting. We need something tangible. If we don't, there's no way to know whether or not our vote has been cast.
posted by Harrison M. @ 10:03 PM
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