[ale] Is there any way to stop this travesty? -- NO, of cour se not!

[Kilroy, Chris]

to take it off on a tangent:


i was kind of blown away at how archaic the voting process was where I did popped out my chads.


the fact that voting regulations are not standardized across the entire country and modernized is a total joke.


->
->The deeper problem with electronic voting is the lack of an 
->audit trail.
->See RISKS LIST 
->http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.12.html#subj1.1 for an
->intro.  These are all closed source systems that are "self-auditing".
->Meaning that once the election results are reported, there is 
->no possibility
->of a recount to verify results.  If there are systemic 
->problems, how can you
->rely on the system to find and report errors?
->
->-----Original Message-----
->From: Jim [mailto:jcphil at mindspring.com] 
->Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 1:25 PM
->To: Keith R. Watson; Irv Mullins; ale at ale.org
->Subject: Re: [ale] Is there any way to stop this travesty? -- 
->NO, of course
->not!
->
->
->On Friday 23 August 2002 01:09 pm, Keith R. Watson wrote:
->> Irv,
->>
->> The quoted article:
->>
->>
->http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/today/metro_d
3569ddbd46e52
>e d0013.html
>
> said the following:
>
> "Diebold officials say its machines have been used in elections in
> Maryland, Virginia, Indiana and California with few reported problems."


Going back to my earlier comments on systems for financial services,
Diebold, 
of course has great experience in this area. They were originally a 
manufacturer of safes, but they also make ATM's for banks. ATM networks are 
wonders of redundancy and reliability. So, if anybody could pull this off, I


would think it would be the people at Diebold.


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