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Poll: Do You Trust Electronic Voting Machines? - RF Cafe Forums
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Do You Trust Electronic
Voting Machines?
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| Yes, they are more secure than
paper ballots. |
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3% |
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| Yes, they are as secure as paper
ballots. |
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9% |
[ 6 ] |
| No, they are not secure enough. |
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77% |
[ 50 ] |
| No Opinion, but I will be voting. |
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8% |
[ 5 ] |
| No Opinion and I will not be voting. |
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2% |
[ 1 ] |
| I am in jail now and cannot vote
anyway. |
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2% |
[ 1 ] |
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votes : 65 |
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Kirt Blattenberger
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Post subject: Do You Trust Electronic Voting Machines?
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:27 pm
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Location: Erie, PA
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Greetings:
It is election time again in America
and now, along with all the other problems, electronic
voting machines are being widely introduced. I wrote
the most recent Kirt's Cogitation on the topic.
This poll asks the question, "Do You Trust
Electronic Voting Machines?"
Thanks for your
participation.
_________________ - Kirt Blattenberger
RF Cafe Progenitor & Webmaster
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Kirt Blattenberger
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Post subject: Early voting on electronic ballot
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 11:41 pm
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Location: Erie, PA
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Greetings: Yesterday (Friday), Melanie and
I cast our ballots in early voting in order to avoid
the lines on Tuesday. Our polling place in Winston-Salem,
NC, happened to use electronic voting machines.
Here are my observations. * The screens were
large and easy to read, and all of my selections
were accurately recorded.
GOOD
* The privacy factor was nearly zero since the
viewing angle of the screens is very wide, and the
machines were not located in booths with curtains
surrounding them. Everything was wide open for everyone
to see. I can imagine in areas where there is a
heavy bias for one political party over the other
that someone might feel extremely intimidated in
that environment. It is no exaggeration when I say
that it was the equivalent to standing in front
of a 19" LCD computer monitor trying to play Solitaire
while using your body to block the screen so no
on can see what you're doing.
VERY BAD
* As you confirmed each selection, a paper tape
similar to a grocery receipt scrolls beneath a glass
window so that you can see a paper record of the
vote.
GOOD
* There were some offices where I did not choose
to vote for anyone, so I did not select any candidates,
then continued to the next screen. At the end, after
indicating that I was done voting, a confusing screen
appeared informing me that I had not made selections
for every office. It offered to take me back to
the screen to make a selection, or to continue.
When I selected Continue, it gave me the warning
screen again. This time I noticed at the bottom
there was yet another option to continue as-is and
finalize the ballot. I was ready to go get the poll
worker to find out why I was being required to cast
a vote that I did not care to cast, until I saw
the option to finalize without voting for a particular
office.
BAD
Overall, I was not at all impressed with the
implementation, particularly the total lack of privacy
that is expected in our culture. Amazingly, when
writing this I discovered through scannig the U.S.
Constitution that it does not explicitly gurantee
the right to privacy when voting. Many state constitutions
do gurantee such a right, however. I also
did not appreciate the "Made in Venezuela by friends
of Hugo Chavez" sticker on the side of the machine.
Has anyone else experienced electronic voting?
What is your opinion?
_________________ - Kirt Blattenberger
RF Cafe Progenitor & Webmaster
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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 2:27 pm
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Kirt,
You need another option:
"I am in jail
now and I vote daily!"
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Kirt Blattenberger
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Post subject: Nov 2007
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 7:21 am
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Greetings:
Well, there was just another
incident with the electronic voting that did not
leave me with warm fuzzy feeling. Melanie and I
went to the local library to vote against a sales
tax increase. After fumbling through the machine
initiation procedure, the poll worker looked skeptical
and walked away. I did my voting and left. As we
were ready to pul out of the parking lot, Melanie
reported that she had been presented with a different
set of screens than what I saw.
It turns
out the poll worker had set up her machine for a
different voting district. We went back in and confronted
the worker about the situation, resulting in a couple
supervisors gathering in a group to discuss the
matter, and assured us that the incident would not
invalidate Melanie's vote. I felt very confident
that they knew what they were talking about. NOT!
Well, the tax increase won out by a margin
of 16 votes. I plan to file a protest.
Have
you had any similar (or completely different) experiences?
_________________ - Kirt Blattenberger
RF Cafe Progenitor & Webmaster
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