RE: electronic voting tomorrow

["Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Again, Rob, these are not new issues with paper ballots.  Maybe it has
something to do with the fact that my mother was a deputy city clerk and
city clerk for 20+ years.  There are some pretty decent controls built into
the human process.  Unless the whole clerk's office is in cahoots with some
scheme to defraud, it would be extremely difficult to alter the votes.

Fire or flood?  Again, the problem is then known.  It is possible to know
whose votes were lost, and allow those people to vote again.

Electronic votes lost to the ether?  No one will ever know.

db

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / rob@xxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 4:56 PM
>
> Do paper ballots have instant offsite backup in case of fire or flood?
> Did paper ballots stop the absentee ballot from the dead guy that
> made the news?
> With electronic journalling of all records, will it be harder for a local
> clerk to abscond with some paper ballots?
>
> I am sure that it will go to the Supreme Court.  Being gracious and
> accepting defeat has gone the way of the dodo bird.  It's like trying to
> get a law passed.  Don't want to bother?  Have it done by judicial fiat
> instead.
>
> Rob Berendt