Count on It
If you think electronic voting, without a paper trail, is safe, secure, and reliable, read this article which says over 4,000 voters in North Carolina had their votes go literally into the ether and not get counted.
Then there is this CNN article that says a Columbus, Ohio precinct electronically registered 4,258 votes for President Bush. The problem is only 638 people voted in that precinct.
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Comments
Well, the president of Diebold, who was also head of the Bush Re-Election Committee in Ohio did promise to deliver Ohio for Bush.
Posted by: Jon | November 8, 2004 07:58 AM
Unless there is a fraud the errors probably go both ways cancling out.
We have electronic voting too in Belgium but it works a bit different I gues.
When you come in you give your passport, in stead of a paper form you get a type of creditcard. You slot that in the computer. Your vote -done with a lightpen on a screen- gets registered on the magnetic strip. When finished to drop the card in a balot box much the same way that paper forms are dropped in. That means there are just as many cards in as there would have been papers. Just as easy to trace later.
Posted by: sjon | November 8, 2004 09:17 PM