Re: electronic voting tomorrow

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The websites listed have no affiliation with any campaign.
Many organizations have been involved in developing this system, including
the Verified Voting Foundation, Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility, the National Committee for Voting Integrity, the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, and the Online Policy Group.
I see this as an IT problem to solve. It just to happens to be our American
election system.
It's obvious it has systemic problems, and many of those have existed prior
to 2000.
So do we ignore it and take whatever results we get from a flawed system, or
do we
deal with the pain and fix it. Many of us involved see this as an
opportunity for people
in IT to participate in something for the civic good.
Picture electronic voting as your A/R system - and in many remote sites, it
keeps no transaction detail of the updates it does, no paper trail, and you
are accountable for it's results! On top of that, volunteers run the system,
and their average age is 70! To top it off, your paycheck, health benefits,
retirement, etc can all be affected by the results.
jim



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From: <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: electronic voting tomorrow


> Nothing is trusted anyway.  Not paper ballots.  Not mechanical paper
> ballots (hanging chads).  Nothing.  There will always be an argument
> saying why it's bad.  Thus, should all attempts to improve be permanently
> shelved?  After all, if it's all going to be tied up in the courts anyway,
> why spend the money on trying to improve the equipment when it could be
> better spent on something less controversial?
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> The trust by "users" of electronic voting systems is amazing.  Hey,
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> trying programmers I've seen programmers produce printouts that aren't
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> relative to the input data.
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