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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Lanya on September 18, 2007, 11:21:37 PM

Title: No more secret ballots in Ohio
Post by: Lanya on September 18, 2007, 11:21:37 PM

http://www.news.com/E-voting+predicament+Not-so-secret+ballots/2100-1014_3-6203323.html

Title: Re: No more secret ballots in Ohio
Post by: Universe Prince on September 19, 2007, 12:27:23 AM

This is why we ought to go back to handing people a sheet of names and telling them to make an 'X' by the name of the person for whom they wish to vote. Surely in this day and age we could get optical readers that could count the votes, but we would still have the paper ballots to check if necessary. How hard would that be to set up?

Title: Re: No more secret ballots in Ohio
Post by: Lanya on September 19, 2007, 04:00:08 AM

Paper ballots that could be optically read shouldn't be hard  to set up.   I'm not sure  what the problem is.

Title: Re: No more secret ballots in Ohio
Post by: Amianthus on September 19, 2007, 05:22:16 AM

Quote from: Lanya on September 19, 2007, 04:00:08 AM

Paper ballots that could be optically read shouldn't be hard  to set up.   I'm not sure  what the problem is.

Maybe we should ask the Democrats in Maryland - after all, they had this exact system and forced a change to computer balloting because the optically scanned ones like Prince just described were somehow unfair. They gave you a ballot and the voting stations had big permanent markers. You put a black mark in the box next to your vote, and the ballot was scanned.