At 09:51 PM 11/5/2002 -0500 Joe Hale wrote:
>Here in Georgia, the voting was completely automated. I'll admit I felt
>a little uneasy with no visible ballot. The touch screen voting
>machines installed over the last two years lack the advantage of
>transparency. How do I know that in the thousands of lines of
>programming code someone didn't slip in a line of code that subtly skews
>the results? I don't mean to sound paranoid and I'm not a Ludite. But
>even though computers have lots of advantages, their functioning is not
>transparent to the ordinary citizen.
I personally argue that all computer-based terminals should provide the
voter with a print-out of the voter's selections. The paper print-outs
would then also be collected, and used as a fail-safe in case of computer
failure or in case of a recount, or in case of allegations of fraud.
JDG
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