November 2nd, 2004

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More on Electronic Voting

Last week, I referenced a funny video and a couple sites that discuss the pitfalls of electronic voting. It seems to me that electronic voting technology ought to be up there with medical software and hardware–it needs to work all the time, without exception. One would hope, given the holy reverence the US people bestow on the concept of democracy, that their electronic voting machines would work on election day. Apparently some of them don’t.

Here’s an amusing and well-built Flash movie explaining the superiority of paper ballots.

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Chris
November 2nd, 2004
1:26 pm

I’m a firm believer that electronic voting software should be open source and open to peer review. The Diebold machines are closed-source, meaning there could be anything going on in there.

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Richard
November 2nd, 2004
3:24 pm

There have been some ok reports done in Canada.
Here are links to

one in English

and

one in French

There’s a 60 Minutes segment which is good

and a 30 minute documentary segment which is also good

Electronic voting machines, particularly optical scanners, are currently in use at the municipal level in Canada, and there are efforts in place to expand this to touch-screen machines as well as to the provincial level.

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