This brings to mind a great line from a craptastic movie...

[wolfwings]

...I'm not sure what worries me more. That there's a nuclear weapon on the loose, or that it happens often enough to have it's own term.

[The touchscreens] slip out of sync, making votes register incorrectly. Poll workers are trained to recalibrate them on the spot...

Ignoring the political leaning of the article, I have to say 'duh!' to this. This is why you don't use any input device that needs to be calibrated for a voting system. And if it's not durable enough to be installed in a video-game in a Chuck-E-Cheese's, it's not durable enough to trust a vote to. So you're stuck with pushbuttons, digital joysticks, and/or click-dials that are little more than a hybrid between a joystick and a pushbutton. Anything else? I'll ask for a paper ballot, please, and that's not even discussing if electronic voting is safer against tampering than paper voting.

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[inaki.livejournal.com]

and that's not even discussing if electronic voting is safer against tampering than paper voting.

Its not. (http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/evoting.ars)

Oh, I know that.

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

Anyone in the tech industry knows that.

But I didn't feel bringing that (completely seperate) aspect of the topic up in my main post would raise the signal:noise appreciably. =^.^=

[sarahemm.livejournal.com]

ATMs all seem to use a CRT/LCD, with pushbuttons beside it to register options. What's wrong with that interface? Machines like this need to be reliable and indestructable, not 'oooh, shiny new technology!'...
people are silly. :P

[aerowolf.livejournal.com]

...and it's Diebold making most of the machines, and they already make all the friggin' ATMs.