Yup! Chad city, eh? I haven't voted in Washington yet, but they have a permanent absentee voter list which is nice. You can make your mark on a piece of paper, which is the way it should be. Normally, I'm very open to electronic wonders, but the internet has proven itself vulnerable to tinkering.
The closest I would come to electronic voting would be like we did in Juneau. You made your mark on a piece of paper, which you personally fed through the reader. That way if the votes go into cyberspace, officials can reconstruct. No chads, no bleeps, no problem! Sounds like a line from a country song, don't it?
Message #12278 from Lazarus_Long at Jul 27, 2004 1:17 PM
The whining has started.
Fear of Fraud
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: July 27, 2004
Columnist Page: Paul Krugman
It's election night, and early returns suggest trouble for the incumbent. Then, mysteriously, the vote count stops and observers from the challenger's campaign see employees of a voting-machine company, one wearing a badge that identifies him as a county official, typing instructions at computers with access to the vote-tabulating software. |
