Feds Finally Realizing That Current E-Voting Standards Suck
from the it-took-them-this-long? dept
Despite the fact that people have been pointing this out for many years, it seems that the federal government is finally recognizing that current e-voting machines suck, and it's time to have much more stringent rules on e-voting machines. Specifically, they want to finally require voter verifiable paper trails so that every machine can have an audit and a recount if there are any questions about them -- which would mean that the plan in Sarasota county, Florida to resell their broken e-voting machines may have just gone out the window. Of course, as per usual, there are always some who are against such a plan. The article quotes an "elections expert" who complains: "If you insist on paper you're tying elections to an old technology." That's about the weakest argument we've heard. We need e-voting machines because they're new? How about accuracy or security? I would think in the long list of reasons why you'd want any particular voting method, "novelty" as opposed to "been around for a while" would be near the bottom of the list.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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My local bank put in a DieBold ATM machine and the thing keeps breaking down. Its almost a joke what a piece of useless technology the thing has turned out to be. The DieBold guys show up looking like a couple of blackshirted thugs from central casting and the parts take weeks to arrive. These hostile right wing thugs are the guys we 'trust' to secure our elections, and that is just DieBold.
Why the federal government has allowed these creeps to sell these porous, crappy, hackable boxes of junk is just another example of the corruption and mismanagement our country is becoming know and loved for...
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Maybe we should use hammer and chisel, that would
It only takes one qualified IT vendor and adequent government funding to solve this problem. Go back to paper is only what needs to be done in the meantime.
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Adequate.
I see no reason why we shouldn't put every safeguard and accountability measure in place, no matter how archaic it may appear. It is people like you who threaten our democratic voting structure by insinuating that voting is the most important thing. Counting the votes is the most important thing.
Any purely electronic method can be tampered with unless you place it under ridiculous surveillance, and that still relies on the integrity of those who are doing the surveillance. Your comparison to a hammer and chisel is just as flawed as the "old technology" expert.
"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."
-Joseph Stalin
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