I'm resolutely keeping this blog non-political. (I'll tell you what I think, if you like--at length, and loudly, if you ask.) But that's not the point.
But if you're still out there thinking that electronic voting, as currently implemented and concieved is a good idea, just ... don't.
In California:
Alameda County officials still don't know why the computer program failed on election night. In fact, they only discovered the malfunction because they could compare the paper absentee ballots the software was counting to the computer's tally. The rest of the county's voters cast electronic ballots. Nor were election workers aware at the time that their touch-screen machines were running unauthorized Diebold software in violation of California law, as a state investigation later discovered.
Electronic Voting's Hidden Perils
An analysis by the Information Security Institute suggests that voters could cast their ballots repeatedly and poll workers could tamper with the ballots -- all without detection -- on the system, which is already in place in several states.February 1, 2004 11:40 PM | TrackBack | in Other