Problem

[Mark Komarinski]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:37:45AM -0400, Travis Roy wrote:
> That was kind of my point. How do you know those things are not flawed 
> in some way, or fixed? How do you know if it counted your vote 
> correctly? Forget about new fangled computers, I'm talking about 
> exsisting systems. What if something happened and it switches Dems for 
> Reps or something like that.. Unless a recount is demanded we would 
> really never know.

Mechanical voting machines have the same problem (hanging chads?).
At least in the case of mechanical voting or scanning, the original
ballot still exists and can be counted.  In purely electronic
voting, there is NO record other than a bunch of bytes.

-Mark
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