Evoting in the News 218
key45 writes "Just a few days after California rejects Diebold E-Voting machines, and Ireland bans e-voting too, the Information Technology Association of America (which represents election equipment makers and other technology companies) released a poll showing that the majority of Americans trust those machines. The war for public opinion is on!" Reader theRG writes "The U.S. Election Assistance Commission held hearings on May 5 about the pros and cons of electronic voting machines. They debated whether or not machines should have paper trails, and what standards should be set. Meanwhile, NPR reports on California's recent decertification of Diebold machines and on one Ohio county's switch from punchcards to electronic voting." And finally, our own OSDN has a report from the election commission meeting: Joe Barr writes "Thom Wysong has a report at NewsForge this morning on the first public meeting of the new U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Questions like whether or not a voter verifiable audit trail and open source should be mandated for e-voting solutions were the order of the day."
US Elections 2004... (Score:3, Funny)
how in the world does this matter (Score:3, Funny)
If we based everything off what the majority of Americans trusted, we would get someone like George Bush for President.
Oh wait, Damn!
Re:US Elections 2004... (Score:3, Funny)
In other news (Score:3, Funny)
And who built the polling machines? (Score:2, Funny)
[Sarcasm] Yeah, those numbers are totally reliable and will definitely reflect the average American opinion. [/Sarcasm]
Re:how in the world does this matter (Score:5, Funny)
Well of course, the poll was taken using electronic voting machines.
Re:American opinion is no measure of truth (Score:4, Funny)
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BTW, one reason that Ireland rejected electronic voting machines is that the "Change the vote to Republican when nobody's looking" feature was only tested in America, and it doesn't accomplish the same thing in Ireland....
Re:My Opinion & Vote (Score:3, Funny)
Indeed, I hear that that group has been quite underprivileged for the past 200 years.