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Re: High hopes for unscrambling the vote
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy M. Silvernail)
Tue Jun 8 15:04:05 2004
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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 13:11:43 -0400
From: "Roy M. Silvernail" <roy@rant-central.com>
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Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
> 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.
Sorry... left out the link.
[1] http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040311.html
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