At 10:03 11-11-00 -0800, John Giorgis wrote:
>I agree, I have supported for some time a move to entirely electronic
>balloting in this country. I find the punch card to by Byzantine and
>arcane, and very prone to fraud.
I'm not sure whether I should be shocked or amused. The US is supposed to
be the technologically most advanced country in the world, yet you still
vote by putting a mark on or punching a hole in a piece of paper??? Sheesh.
I know of a relatively small country in Europe, called The Netherlands. In
that country, voting has been done electronically for about ten years now
-- at all elections: local, provincial and national. It is working great:
it's impossible to vote for more than one candidate, human error in
counting is impossible, and results can be tallied immediately. When the
polling stations close (typically at 8 pm), the final results for each
station are sent in electronically. It does of course take some time to get
the results of all those stations added, but the final results are usually
known shortly after midnight.
If the Dutch can do it, why can't the Americans do it with all their
advanced technology?
Jeroen
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