Comments on: Electronic Voting Machines Will Destroy American Democracy

By: adam

adam — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 17:40:45 +0000

I agree that the votor rolls are a mess, but I don’t think motor votor does what you claim. Mail-in votes are not anonymous, and so can be audited. An awful lot of the (voting day) multi-voting problem could be cured by dipping people’s fingers in ink. They do this in Africa, and it’s remarkably effective: If your index finger is bright purple, you can’t vote again.
(We could make voting cool: Purple is the new black!)

By: sama

sama — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 16:54:55 +0000

I will be using one of those giant metal machines from the latter 20th century to vote.
Actually, the big problem is motor-voter, which in essence makes it illegal to ask for ID when voting or registering, thus turning the voter rolls into a free for all.
The whole purpose of a census is to count those who are allower to vote, so that nobody gets to vote twice. Unfortunately, there will be a whole lot of people voting twice or more this election, computer balloting or not.