Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Why electronic voting is bad
Via Jim Lippard, an excellent explanation of why electronic voting systems are a bad idea. The skinny: no paper, no way of checking if something funny has happened. As one person put it in the comments: "the old system's inefficiency is actually a safety measure built into them -- to hijack an inefficient system requires many more resources."
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When I vote this time, it was computerized. However, the actual ballot was printed on a barcoded paper that I had to verify before it could be submitted. I scrolled by in a window at the right of the computer. I asked the election official, he said it was the bar coded paper that was counted. I remember thinking that I did not know what the bar code represented, only my printed results. Unless somebody is doing auditing, I have no way of knowing if my will be counted accurately.
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