E-VOTING, WE HARDLY KNEW YOU

[Doughboy71]

Interesting article. Glad to see $3 billion wasted...

The headline for voting technology 2008 might be this: Back where we started. Back to paper ballots, that is.

For the first time since touch-screen voting was invented, use of the high-tech voting machines has declined sharply. On Nov. 4, the majority of Americans will be filling out their ballots using old-fashioned paper and No. 2 pencils.

But it's been a long-strange trip back to the beginning. The gyrations of America's voting rituals began with hanging chads in 2000. Then came the Help America Vote Act of 2002, which set aside $3 billion to upgrade America's antiquated ballot system. Then came the gold rush towards space-aged, touch screen electronic voting systems. Next, computer scientists uncovered multiple security flaws in electronic vote machines, with the controversy culminating in an HBO film called "Hacking Democracy."

That was enough for election officials in California, Florida, Maryland, and several other states that have placed their pricey touch-screen machines in moth balls. Most have returned to a system that relies -- at least in part -- on pencils.


http://redtape.msnbc.com/2008/10/the-headline-fo.html#posts">Full Article Here

[...of J.Temperance]

1. We should FULLY support the ditching of electronic voting and a return to voting on paper ballots

And as SOON as possible as well.

Ditch the E-Vote.

[Atman]

2. "Our work here is done." - Bush, Cheney

They got their second term out of them. Fuck 'em now, we can vote using marbles and beads for all they care.

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