Re: Touch Screen Voting systems

From: Alan Winston - SSRL Admin Cmptg Mgr (winston_at_SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU)
Date: 07/30/04


Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:39:05 GMT

In article <410AAEB8.85123267@teksavvy.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@teksavvy.com> writes:
>What would be wrong with the following system:
>
>Electronic voting multiple booths in one polling station. One printer in an
>enclosed, totally opaque enclosure.
>
>Everytime someone confirms a vote, the vote is recorded electronically, and
>one line is printed on the printer which includes only the polling station
>number and the vote selection (s).
>
>Alternatively, you could have the printer spew out the information on bar
>codes, which would make then unreadable unless you have the special equipment
>to read a line.

Voter has to be able to see that what gets submitted into the count is what
the voter voted for, in some way that doesn't involve trusting that the
voting machine isn't lying to you.

-- Alan

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