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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.
[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.
Oh, I know that.
Date: 2006-11-01 07:42 pm (UTC)But I didn't feel bringing that (completely seperate) aspect of the topic up in my main post would raise the signal:noise appreciably. =^.^=