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Re: High hopes for unscrambling the vote
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy M. Silvernail)
Tue Jun 8 10:17:47 2004
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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 08:30:24 -0400
From: "Roy M. Silvernail" <roy@rant-central.com>
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R. A. Hettinga quotes Declan McCullagh:
> Bottom line:The technology is still in its prototype stage--but a bigger
> obstacle may be whether notoriously conservative voting officials can be
> convinced to try something new.
That's an interesting perspective, considering electronic voting already
*is* "something new". A man with tinfoil inside his fez might wonder if
this points to a greater conspiracy that hinges on the lack of a paper
trail from the voting machines.
Speaking of which, this[1] Cringely column doesn't seem to have received
much notice, even though it points out that the Diebold machines
*already have a printer* built in. While it's probably not equipped to
do Chaumian voter receipts, it could certainly do the old-fashioned
human-readable type. That's a SMOP.
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