[SGVLUG] Electronic voting - NO!

Chris Smith cbsmith at gmail.com
Tue Sep 19 19:46:54 PDT 2006


On 9/19/06, Dennis Birney <DennisBirney at msn.com> wrote:
> With all due respect: has anyone considered the possibility of delivering to
> the voter a hard copy of who they voted for but on the electronic side have
> a vote recorded for whomever the hacker was directed to vote for??? IF a
> recount was ordered, then a problem might be discovered.

Yes. The problem with this is the fear that voter information might
get encoded on to "computer readible" part of the ballot. There are
some strategies for dealing with this too, but it is tricky.

-- 
Chris


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