[ale] OT: Voting machines cracked in California

[Bob Toxen]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 01:42:10PM -0400, Thompson Freeman wrote:
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> I don't _expect_ any organization to just box up a probably  
> flawed approach and try again fresh. Such will rarely happen, as  
> most people are likely to throw good money after bad in hopes of  
> saving the original investment. It is almost certain to happen  
> here also.
Why not?  Isn't that EXACTLY what happened with punched card ballots
and the old mechanical voting machines before that.  The difference
is that those systems were VERY HARD to cause massive voting fraud on.
The punched cards actually were by far the cheapest to operate.

> I'm not sure patching with procedures and wrapping in legal  
> bailing wire is _less_ costly in the short run even as opposed  
> to backing out and trying fresh to apply the lessons available  
> through the experiment.

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Bob