On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 06:07:31PM -0600, Julia Thompson wrote: > (I don't trust the programmers not to stick in something that they > could be bribed to fix. I might trust specific programmers once I got > to know them, but I figure there will be a couple of bad apples in the > bunch and so I don't trust *all* of them as a *class*.) > > I'm happiest with the system under which I voted -- paper ballot > that you mark to be scanned electronically and votes tallied > electronically. Not paper ballot to be tallied by human, not paper > ballot to have holes punched out, but paper ballot to be marked by > writing instrument and scanned by machine.
I seriously doubt the machine uses gears and levers. It had to be coded on some level, micro-code, machine-language, or higher level language. So, it depends on how it was bought. Was it bought on the used market, from, for example, ETS, or was it bought from the manufacturer who knew what it was to be used for? Actually, I think worrying about that OR programmers is rather over the top. Just wanted to point out that it is inconsistent to worry about one and not the other. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
