Saturday, November 06, 2004

Why I am against machine voting

In Ohio AP reports thatMachine Error Gives Bush Extra Ohio Votes.

This is why I think paper ballots are essential. They leave a paper trail not dependent solely on bits in memory. Actual people can count the ballots if there is a dispute.

It is time to get rid of voting machines, punch card ballots, electronic voting and any other method that does not leave a reliable verifiable paper trail.

Paper ballots, computerized counting.

Works for me.

5 comments:

KurtP said...

In our early voting in Texas they pretty much used paper ballots. On election day in San Antonio they had a voting machine (or two) over heat- probably because it couldn't handle all the hacking it was getting.

I put up a post on my blog about it (voting in Lockhart, Tx)

Firehand said...

That's what we have in Oklahoma, and it seems to work pretty well. You mark a paper ballot, the machine counts it, and if need be can pull the cards out and manually go over them.

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