Re: Ironic counting problem?

From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Sun Oct 20 2002 - 07:52:52 MDT


On Saturday 19 October 2002 12:30, J Corbally wrote:
> >Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 21:58:35 +0000 (UTC)
>...
> Speaking of which, I cast my first electronic vote today. Nice Treaty and
> all that........
>
> It was easy to use and the results will be available by midnight. Areas
> that used paper ballots will have official results by tomorrow. Still,
> with only a medium turnout expected I doubt they'll be too strained.
>
> Constitutional amendment, anybody?
>
>
> James...
>...

Yeah, I'ld like a constitutional amendment. Requiring any voting system to be
easily checked for accuracy. All code open source, audit trails, etc. With
permanent records.

Electronic systems are too much black boxes. You're supposed to trust them to
be honorable, when they haven't been on much that you can check.



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