[quote=“BTravenn”]
…hiring temps for a day to assist with an election really isn’t that expensive … that’s one reason why the CFO’s proposal to switch to electronic balloting was rejected. [/quote]
Slightly off-topic but most people should be critically afraid (!) of electronic voting. There is never a shortage of the chronically corrupt and electronic voting just makes their job a little easier - hence the story of George Bush Jr.
Drumroll AND THE CANDIDATE WINS BY A LANDSLIDE IN ALL THE RIDINGS HIS CLOSE FRIENDS ARE IN CONTROL OF!
Electronic or otherwise, you need to trust those counting the votes. Saying you should be afraid of electronic is just as illogical as saying you should be afraid of paper ballots. Both can be faked.
Electronic voting is perfectly fine when you have open-source software (and the ability to verify it), as well as a paper trail / receipt system.
[quote=“MiG”]
Electronic or otherwise, you need to trust those counting the votes.[/quote]
Good point.
[quote=“MiG”]
Saying you should be afraid of electronic is just as illogical as saying you should be afraid of paper ballots. Both can be faked.[/quote]
[quote=“jesus”]
Which is not the method/machines chosen by governments due to lobbying etc… hence why you should be fearful of them bringing in electronic voting. [/quote]
If by “governments” you mean some American jurisdictions, then you’d be right. But there are plenty of governments around the world (and the in the USA) that require open-source and transparent electronic voting machines.
Check out the wikipedia page on electronic voting for lots of examples:
There are a few groups of politicians I have absolutely 0 faith in, prince rupert municipal politicians, the BC ‘liberals’ and the federal conservatives all thankfully noticeably absent from the list
I like the postwar method, like they used in Greece. You got a red card and a blue one. If you dropped the red card in the box it was for the Communists, blue for the King.
When you went out the back door, everyone with a blue card was escorted into an army truck and taken away.
Simple. Efficient.
Sarah Palin would love it.
