At 18:07 05-11-2002 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
Are they not supposed to be kept for a number of years (given the fact that pretty much every legal document has to be kept for several years)?> Fourth, all those piles of papers have to be stored somewhere. The > ballots from just one election take up quite a lot of valuable storage > space.Once the results are in and there's no challenge that they'd need the paper ballots for, they can be disposed of.
What, they tried to build such a voting system from scratch? How inefficient -- the Dutch would be more than happy to sell you the hardware and software. It has been functioning for over a decade here, and I have never heard anything about the system having bugs; it has been functioning exactly as it is supposed to do.> So, why is it that such a technologically advanced nation as the US is > still using outdated technology, while some European country has been > using a high-tech solution for over a decade already? Um, because the bugs aren't all worked out yet?
And so far, no reports of fraud either.
How tolerant is that machine wrt ballots that are not correctly marked (FREX, circles that are not completely filled, markings outside the circle, etcetera)?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.
How can you be sure that the programmers of the tallying machine did not put in a few lines of code (or could be bribed into doing that), that will by default give those questionable votes to a specific Party?
Jeroen "Europe Rulez!" van Baardwijk
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