January 27, 2007

Voting

Cross posted from Today in Brief. Ars Technica has a chilling summary of the current problems with electronic voting. As the article states, even if we assume there is no willful tampering being done with these electronic voting machines, we’re in for a terribly shitty midterm election in those states/precincts using the machines. Poll workers are poorly trained, procedures for making sure the correct votes are recorded and counted are not in place, the machines can easily and undetectably tampered with, there is no dependable audit trail. Read more