October 25, 2004
Top Ten Reasons America Needs Better Voting Technology
10. "I Voted" stickers won't hold up in court.
9. A constitutional crisis can ruin your whole week.
8. Yeah, like no one's ever stuffed a paper ballot box.
7. Accountability is better than recountability.
6. Few county officials have the 212,234 fingers needed for a real hand count.
5. No one's calling for a return to typewriters.
4. Friends don’t let friends use paper ballots.
3. You absolutely, positively, have to know your vote counted.
2. A vote is a terrible thing to waste.
1. At some point, we have to know who really won.
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Although the subject of electronic voting is a serious one, we are taking a few minutes to make light of the electronic voting issue and the knee-jerk responses some have made to revert to paper ballots as a way to ensure safe elections. We believe adding paper ballots to voting machines would be a step backward. We should instead add cryptographic audit technology that gives voters a private paper receipt to take home and verify their vote. This is a better way to strengthen confidence in our elections.
Posted by Buzz Webster at October 25, 2004 04:06 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
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