#3 2008-10-21 01:09:05
You know, I really don't need to know the election results one hour after the final polls close. I'm happy to wait for the damned things to be counted by hand by little old lady volunteers and for the winner to be announced a day or two later.
I'm not really sure I see the need for electronic voting.
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#4 2008-10-21 01:15:32
Taint wrote:
You know, I really don't need to know the election results one hour after the final polls close. I'm happy to wait for the damned things to be counted by hand by little old lady volunteers and for the winner to be announced a day or two later.
I'm fully in support of a 24 hour voting window, I mean welcome to the 21st Centrury after-all.
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#6 2008-10-21 01:46:37
The part that really irks me is that there is no technical reason why electronic voting can't be secure. If they were transferring money instead of votes you can bet we wouldn't have some of these asinine problems, like machines where the storage card for storing the votes contains scripts that can manipulate the data with no audit.
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#7 2008-10-21 08:52:31
Emmeran wrote:
Taint wrote:
You know, I really don't need to know the election results one hour after the final polls close. I'm happy to wait for the damned things to be counted by hand by little old lady volunteers and for the winner to be announced a day or two later.
I'm fully in support of a 24 hour voting window, I mean welcome to the 21st Centrury after-all.
Screw it, just get rid of the polling places and those infernal machines altogether. Mail everyone an optical scan ballot a few weeks before the election. Log in and store all the ballots till election day counting in a central location under lock and key. People could do their voting in their skivies.
Oh wait, that's what they do in Oregon. You can still vote at a polling machine if you really want to. They are centrally located so you may have to travel a ways, but there are plenty of friendly people who run ride services.
Why is it that only Oregon has figured out how to vote in the 21st century. Though I suppose to be fair it is really just good old 20th century tech. If we really wanted to move into the new millenium we would be able to vote over our phones and the internet.
PS. When they first changed over in 2004 they were stunned by how smoothly the election ran. Voters had no problem at all giving up going to a polling place and participation was up an amount just slightly more then the national average increase for that year. Sure it cost millions in postage and handling, but they actually saved the taxpayer a modest amount of money by reducing staff and forgoing purchasing all those crummy E voting machines. E voting machines other States were forced to buy that year and then junk after that election to repurchase new ones Because they had engineering designs that were rushed to market and not ready for prime time.
Last edited by Johnny_Rotten (2008-10-21 09:18:04)
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#8 2008-10-21 09:39:33
I just want them to make it allowable to bludgeon those annoying twits who whine at you as you are trying to run the gauntlet into the polling place to vote. I am voting early this year so I don't have to deal with those bastards.
They should make it a rule that NO commercials, printed ads or political endorsements can come out 48 hours before the election. That is outside the attention span of 90% of the population anyway, allowing votes to come from informed voters.
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