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TruthIsAll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-03 07:44 PM
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This demo shows why Touch-screen voting is a recipe for disaster..
Edited on Sun Oct-19-03 08:19 PM by TruthIsAll
Who the hell are they kidding? Try the "demo".

http://www.vtintl.com/new/default.asp

Now here's the TIA voting machine (a piece of paper, desk and a pen). Do you think maybe I can patent the technology?
...............................
Check off your choice:
Gore __
Bush __
...............................
Now place it in the box.

Have a nice day.
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-03 07:49 PM
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1. great... I voted for "YES"
wow...this scares me. :scared:
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-03 08:00 PM
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2. As long as there is a paper trail, touch screen voting is fine
I consider it an improvement, but there must be a paper trail for evry ballot cast. Each ballot should generate a printout (and the voter should be allowed to inspect it when he/she is done voting) that would go into a pile in the even a recount was necessary.
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lysergik Donating Member (340 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-03 11:36 PM
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9. paper trail is NOT ok.
The paper ballots need to be counted, not tallied from computer results. Use a touch screen machine to allow ease for the voter to make accurate choices, print out their ballot, let them verify and inspect and then place it in the ballot box to be counted.

Relying on computer tabulated results could very well be inaccurate and the results not close enough to warrant a recount, and even if it did go for a recount what guarantee that someone won't mistakenly "misplace" a ton of ballots? There is none.

Count the paper the first time.
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-03 08:01 PM
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3. Wow, that really brings it home in stark reality, in a virtual way!
You have no idea what may have really happened to the vote, but have a nice day!

(Being Canadian, I am more and more grateful for the horse and buggy way of "pass me the HB pencil and let me mark my X)
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-03 08:11 PM
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4. Yeah, but..., but..., but...,
With pencil and paper you have to wait for the votes to be counted before you know who the winner is. With the touch screens the winner can be determined before the election. That really speeds things up.
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shirlden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-03 08:47 PM
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6. Spewed coffee is not good for keyboards.
Thanks for the laugh, though. That was a good one. Mind if I use it.

:kick:
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Clete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-03 09:16 PM
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8. LOL
Yes, having the results before the election is speedy.
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dweller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-03 08:45 PM
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5. subliminal?


from the homepage, it's easy enough to tell the check is by the *moron's name.

dp
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Clete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-03 09:14 PM
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7. As a bookkeeper I never expected computers to take the
place of an actual entry after deciding what type of animal a transaction was. What I was grateful for was not having to manually run rolls of calculator tapes verifying the results or manually print the entries onto a journal, and then transfer the totals to a ledger.

Computer voting should do the same, and yes you have the original numbered sheet of each individual's vote choices for verification.
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Zorra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-03 11:49 PM
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10. Patent your invention as an
Electoral Voting Device.
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7th_Sephiroth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-03 11:53 PM
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11. did you notice
also the arnold for senator thing?
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Zorra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 12:51 AM
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13. Yeah, slime never sleeps. n/t
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BevHarris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 12:51 AM
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12. Geez. That was a dumb experience
I didn't vote for anyone and got "have a nice day" with a string of "no selections."
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TruthIsAll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 08:02 PM
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14. Bev, you made no selections, but the voting machine may have...
...for Bush..
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drdigi420 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 08:23 PM
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15. Hiyas Bev
Just read your entire text thru chapter 9

Inspired me to write this song:

http://stonernet.org/media/drdigi_-_my_name_is_bush.wax
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