On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:16:53 -0600 Kathy Dopp wrote:
From: Dave Ketchum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [EM] Why We Shouldn't Count Votes with Machines
Regrettably James is making an incorrect analysis of the problem.
I believe that is a mischaracterization because James' prior email
simply cited some recent articles.
And James says so now. Still, it was easy to assume his references
implied agreement with their obvious position.
The references that you provided below seemed to have the same slant
as his.
BETTER to accept that computers are truly as dependable as their
successful use elsewhere demonstrates,
So since computers work well for problems like banking where errors
are easily detected and corrected due to a lack of anonymity and paper
receipts and banking statements, then we should use computers for
anonymously deposited e-ballots where errors can be virtually
impossible to detect and even more impossible (if that were possible)
to correct? Not good logic unless you think that we should
anonymously deposit our money into banks without any receipts or bank
statements and *trust* bankers blindly too.
Except for the anonymity that we properly provide for voters, you have
it backwards:
That anonymity is not a license to produce election equipment:
Without attention to getting the details right, including
minimizing likelihood of trouble from human errors.
Including deliberate falsification of results.
Nor is it a license to purchase such without attention to the quality
being supplied.
Here are some recent articles on this topic (all these articles were I
believe published in August 2008):
...
Kathy
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