"thunder" wrote in message
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On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 20:59:33 -0400, Ted wrote:


No, I never said I was against electronic voting.

IMHO, computers are not the way to vote. Since I can program a computer
to
do what I want it too, I could easily slip in a little margin.

Paper ballots are still the best, though long ago, the paper ballots went
through the box and into the basement where they could be "sorted".
Today,
the odds of that happening are slim, but it would take a lot of proof
that
an electronic voting machine was reliable. Sure, i could show you dozens,
once you bought thousands and thousands, you won't make me perform the
same tests would you?

I think electronic voting can work, but it has to be transparent and
capable of being audited. Fortunately, due in part to websites such as
blackboxvoting.org, there is a major push to require voter verified paper
ballots. All but twelve states have legislation in the pipeline.


http://www.verifiedvoting.org/

Western Florida has electronic voting and a paper ballot. You mark the
ballot, and the machine scans it for errors. Same as you could do with any
electronic voting machine. Simple to put a printer on the machine and it
prints out a paper record, and that record can be reviewed by the voter and
then dropped in a ballot box for an audit trail.