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  • From: Marcia <msmartin AT ccbeunet.br>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>, "H. Wade Minter" <minter AT lunenburg.org>
  • Cc: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Stop Computer Voting In North Carolina
  • Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:28:45 -0300

How accurate would a paper trail be anyway? We all know that one information
could be sent to the printer, and another to the actual system/database.

How accurate was last presidential election in Florida? I guess we'll never
really know. If people want to fix the elections, there’s really no way of
stopping it... In my humble opinion.




Quoting "H. Wade Minter" <minter AT lunenburg.org>:

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> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Thomas Beckett wrote:
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> > Rachel Cox wrote:
> > > Yeah, I'm not very excited about electronic voting at this point
> > > myself. I'm eager for the time when I can be, but right now there are
> > > just too many questions for me to be comfortable with it.
> >
> > Well in North Carolina at least, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. The
> > paper ballot and optical reader system we now use (in Orange, Durham and
> > Wake at least) works great, and there's a physical ballot and audit
> > trail. The ballot itself is simple and easy to understand. I have even
> > witnessed a local election recount on behalf of the Democratic Party and
> > I think the system works well. I would be extremely suspicious of any
> > effort to replace this system with anything else.
>
> The big problem as I see it is that the big voting companies like Diebold
> are absolutely opposed to, and fighting tooth-and-nail to stop, any sort
> of audit trail for their computers. They want zero paper trail for their
> voting.
>
> Why on earth would anyone who wants fair elections be so opposed to having
> a paper audit trail? That's what gets my suspicions up about e-voting.
> They want to take an unproven system and remove any sort of non-electronic
> accountability.
>
> Sketchy at best.
>
> - --Wade
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