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

[sue-n-julia.livejournal.com]

I wasn't suggesting no audit trail. As someone who has worked in the computer industry documenting and testing software, I am only too aware that errors happen. Myself, I prefer optical scanning. When performing a recount it only makes sense to use a method different from the first to tally the totals.