[IP] more on (wiith comments by djf) NYTimes.com Article: Why We Fear the Digital Ballot
While I see benefits to do all we can to assure accurate tallies, I
think it is a lot more important to assure that voters are allowed to
register and get to the polls. That is not the case in many parts of
our country. Also endlessly telling the public that it is a waste of
time to believe that their votes will be accurately counted does not
inspire people to go to the polls.
At this date lets devote our energy to getting out the voters.
Dave
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Robert J. Berger" <rberger@xxxxxxx>
Date: September 27, 2004 7:10:08 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] (wiith comments by djf) NYTimes.com Article: Why We
Fear the Digital Ballot
I agree with you 100%, but what your comment and the article miss, is
that
at least the Diabold voting machines and the associated GEMS management
software are just plain bad. They have known back doors, the data can
be
manipulated with plain Windows computers with MS Access software, have
no
public review of the code (other than the code that was found on their
FTP
site which got some very bad reviews) and they have a CEO who is
blatantly
pro Republican.
The first step, that needs to be done BEFORE Nov 2nd is public review
of the
software and paper printouts suitable for manual reconciliation on all
electronic voting machines. Anything less will mean that there can be no
trust in the vote done by these devices.
Then we can do as you suggest and get it right (or at least orders of
magnitude closer to "right").
Rob
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