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[Marcia <msmartin AT ccbeunet.br>]

ummmmm... maybe one of the benefits could be having a result in a few hours, 
instead of days, weeks....?


Quoting Steve Burnett <burnett AT pobox.com>:

> > 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.
> 
> So the benefit in switching systems is....?
> 
> The transition cost is not zero (at least highly unlikely to be zero), so
> it'd be nice to see a positive benefit somewhere.
> 
> Steve B
> 
> > Quoting "H. Wade Minter" <minter AT lunenburg.org>:
> >
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> >> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Thomas Beckett wrote:
> >>
> >> > 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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