Electronic voting machines

[damont]

I haven't said this in my blog yet... I firmly believe that (a) electronic voting machines are truly the wave of the future; BUT (b) we have GOT to design a better surfboard. The paper trail for voting can be anonymized... and thus I see no realistic objections to having a real, dead-tree, paper trail. Today I got this URL from non-LJ friends, and I have to agree with them that Bruce Schneier says all this much better than I can. Read this, then lobby your local/state/federal governments accordingly.

The Problem with Electronic Voting Machines

And in case you were wondering, I live in the precinct in Fairfax County cited in his article. My vote was very likely one of those affected.

Comments

Re: Simpler is not better

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

If a new democracy (say Iraq) were to hold an election in the style that the US uses, it would be decried worldwide as inaccurate.

Seems to me that's the very problem he's trying to help fix -- though he's concentrating on one particular aspect of the problem. I'm not sure I've ever heard of a large-scale real election that couldn't be decried as similarly or even more inaccurate.