If hackers can remain anonymous then voters can still remain anonymous. This would be a positive reason to spoof your IP. To make it easy, they should just replace the booths woth computers and let the people come to the machine rather than doing it from home. ------------------ RocketFuel is dead!
Sounds like that's what they're talking about, SpaceCity. They give you an electronic ballot card - instead of the paper punch-hole one - and you pop that into the voting computer which then displays the ballot on the screen. They don't elaborate on this in the article outlaw posted, but it would seem logical that what would then happen is you would enter your choices and they get recorded on the card which you would then deposit, anonymously, in the ballot collection box. Not so unlike our current system except that everything is getting recorded electronically. Is anybody familiar with this method in more detail? I'm speculating a little on how it works but it sounds good to me. ------------------
I'm just concerned about the chance for glitches and computer problems, with no paper record to fall back on. Especially since elections are infrequent, and polling stations are run by volunteers, so no one would be familliar with the equipment or know how to fix problems. Paper ballots can be a pain, but they are almost impossible to erase or mess up (unless you live in Palm Beach County, Florida). Consider how many computer and disk problems they had this time -- and the computers were only used to tabulate votes and transport the totals. Not to mention if they electronic ballots work the way Chris heard, one strong magnet dropped into the ballot box with a ballot could wipe out a whole district's vote. I'm not saying it wouldn't be easier, or better -- just that this needs to be thouroughly tested, with some kind of paper backup. This election has proven that you can't be careless with any votes. ------------------ Stay Cool...
just keep this stuff away from florida, those morons can't even read a simple ballot. ------------------
Who's to say they'll know which hole to insert the card into? Who's to say they'll know which card to insert? I can see it now -- "I thought I was supposed to insert my voter registration card!" ------------------ People like to slam Bush's education record, but at least Texans know how to punch holes.
Hey DUDE, ask and you shall recieve: http://www.click2houston.com/hou/news/stories/news-20001110-010024.html http://broadband.ibsys.com:8080/ramgen/2000/1110/163155.rm?usehostname&owner=hou&site=hou&app=page I still don't like the idea of computers able to keep track of who you voted for. It may not matter in national elections but in local ones it could be an issue. For example, I voted against Chuck Rosenthal, if I'm ever being prosecuted by him in court I don't want him to know I didn't vote for him.
