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The New York Times has a
Diebold
love piece about voting machines. It's well written enough,
explaining various concerns with the technology in clear language. But
every concern is answered as if it's not a problem, and in the end
even I was wondering why Computer Geek Lunatics were harassing
Poor Diebold. My favourite bit, the last sentence:
Critics say they can only hope that the problems will not be severe
enough to require recounts, since paper ballots will not exist.
Why the #$($*#*$ won't paper ballots exist? The article doesn't get
into that. Nor does it discuss
the Diebold
backdoor that lets you change the votes, nor the
ACM's emerging
position against electronic voting.
And it only briefly
touches on the long sorry operational history. Still, it was nice to
learn Diebold's gonna add some crypto to the communication links. Duh!
I generally like Guernsey's articles, but I think she relied too much on Diebold for this article. |
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