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I was just reading a little interesting blurb on the Electronic Frontier Foundation'sAction Center about California's Electronic Voting machines and the need for paper trails. Here is a blurb:
"...California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley announced that he will require voter verified paper audit trails for electronic voting machines by 2006. He has also taken several steps to improve election security in California immediately and, beginning in 2005, he will prohibit counties from purchasing computerized voting systems that lack a voter verified paper trail."
Now I know that no average citizen wants to think that their vote could be easily tampered with, but when will we be able to leave behind the paper trail? Isn't this just another example about how ignorant people are about computers. What I suppose we are saying is that we don't trust the people making these machines. Well I can tell you how to fix it. Make the punishment for being involved with tampering with election results very severe. Felony, 20 years. They will never get to vote again and they will lose 20 years of their life. That should scare most people off. Wow, I usually agree with the EFF too, weird... [READ]
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