[MD] Voting

[ian glendinning]

Marsha, Arlo,

Boring middle-ground again I'm afraid, I have mixed views about this.
We live in an increasingly electronic comms based world, and in the UK
too there have been selected trials of electronic-only voting systems.

We must definitely take an interest (a vigilance) in how voting is
counted and how we are assured of fair-play. After all, even paper
voting requires observers and audits, where even the would-be leaders
of advanced civilisations are not above stretching the rules.

Personally - I think we'll end up with rapid real-time electronic
voting & counting, supported by "generated" paper trails created only
for retrospective audits on re-counts & disputes. The votes themselves
will require reasonably advanced individual identity based security
... as do on-line commercial transactions.

Ian

On 8/29/06, Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:
> Hi Marsha,
>
> This is critically important. Whether or not one entertains the idea that
> fraud HAS occurred, it shocks me that there are people able to accept
> voting with no paper trail. No American in the country should support
> election machines that do not collect paper ballots. Why take the chance?
> As is often quoted, "eternal vigilance is the price of freedom", and this
> is one area where we should never, ever let our vigilance down. But, as in
> so many other ways, we have become inert and apathetic. And so we lose. And
> like the page says, we deserve what we get.
>
> Arlo
>
>
>
> At 03:21 AM 8/29/2006, you wrote:
>
> >I think this is very, very, VERY important.  Sorry if it seems
> >inappropriate to some of you.
> >
> >
> >http://politics.netscape.com/viewstory/2006/08/24/programmer-admits-creating-vote-rigging-software-used-in-florida-election/?url=http%3A%2F%2Falternet.org%2Fblogs%2Fvideo%2F40755%2F&frame=true
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >   Marsha
> >
> >
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