On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, bzcoder wrote: > Voting systems have to be at a level that volunteers can monitor and > help out people who are voting. > > Computer geeks are slow to volunteer to help out on election day, > therefore systems have to be simplified so people who predate computers > can use them while at the same time cannot be prone to tampering by a > few geeks who do volunteer. > > Than the few computer geeks who are interested go off and create an > open source project that is geared to stuff their philosophy of > computing down everyone else's throat, while still not being simple and > intuitive for my grandma to use.
I think a lot of prominent geeks already said the machines were not secure without some kind of hardcopy audit trail. But this government has a habit of ignoring experts in anything (e.g. can you say "DMCA"? ). -- Aj. _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
