See my other posting. Under New Hampshire law, the kind of voting machine that has monitors is illegal -- for the most compelling of reasons. The only kind of voting machine that is allowed is an optical scan machine that counts paper ballots. For the next generation, I'm leaning toward a batch machine, rather than a machine that stays up all day and reads the ballots one-by-one as the voters pass them into the ballot box. Eavesdropping on a batch machine would not compromise voter anonymity. I'm thinking of proposing that the design specification include mechanical mounts for privately owned video cameras, so that the party inspectors could record the ballot images in real time as they pass through the machine, and make independent automated counts on their own computers as a real-time audit on the accuracy of the official result.
-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What about the issue of voter anonymity? That's the reason why > eavesdropping a monitor on a voting machine is a bad thing. > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
