[ale] Re: Vote Today - Message from Marie

[Charles Shapiro]

What you say is true, alas. But such a fraud becomes more difficult than
simply altering a bunch of bits on a hard drive -- someone has to make
the switch between the real votes and the fake ones, and that person
must stay bought. Not impossible, but conspiracies become exponentially
more difficult with each new conspirator.

-- CHS

On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 11:19, Joseph A Knapka wrote:
> Stanaland, Brian wrote:
> > Saw a story on Fox last night.  The machines do print out your selections.
> > The paper stays in the machine, though.  At least it's another step in the
> > right direction.  I sure would like to have seen the printout!
> 
> If you can't visually verify that the vote you cast was the one printed,
> the fact that the machine is allegedly printing your selection is of
> no value. Furthermore, even if you *could* confirm that the printout
> matched your ballot, there's nothing stopping the machine from producing
> a second, hidden printout with whatever votes the Hidden Masters want;
> the printout you "confirm" might go directly into the circular file.
> As long as what the machine says it recorded matches the contents of
> *some* piece of paper, people will assume there's been no fraud.
> 
> Granted, there's a lot of paranoia in that scenario, but since
> secure voting protocols exist, it's just stupid not to use them.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Joe (who will vote the old-fashioned way here in El Paso)
> 
> 
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