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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: stockman_scott who wrote (56316)	11/3/2004 6:46:14 PM
From: Ron	Read Replies (2) of 81568

Interesting suggestion from John Dvorak about computerized voting machines: Here is the scenario. A person would cast his or her vote. At the end a small two-part slip of paper would be printed from a small bar-code printer hooked to the machine or even a more centralized printer. The small print-out would have a voter receipt on one half and a bar code on the other that would represent the votes cast by the voter. The voter would tear this in half and place the bar code in a ballot box and keep the other half. There would be a bar-code reader in the room to validate the votes if the voter was concerned about accuracy. The sealed ballot box containing all the bar-coded little pieces of paper would be the paper trail and final back up for serious audits of districts. It would only be used for recounts, catastrophic system failures and spot checks as needed. Most of the time, it would never be looked at. But it would be there just in case. Currently there is no paper trail and with computers it's needed badly. If Diebold and the other companies are smart they'll add this inexpensive feature and allow everyone to sleep just a little better at night, knowing that the cheaters can't as easily cheat. ----- It does seem rather absurd, that in an era when you get paper printouts for everything from automated grocery scanners to post office vending machines and gas pumps... we have not gotten around to requiring paper receipts for something as important as voting. --------- I don't really subscribed to the "we wuz robbed" scenario this time around. I do subscribe to the obvious fact that the Democrats underestimated the power of social issues and getting out the fundamentalist vote. But lack of accountability for computerized voting in the future sure could be a huge thing to deal with, whether you are conservative, moderate or liberal.

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