[SGVLUG] Vote stealing

[Don Gibbs]

>  > -----Original Message-----
>>  [mailto:sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net] On Behalf Of Zack, James
>>
>>  I am all for technology, but it needs to be done right.  So
>>  if you were going to build the perfect, fairest, most secure
>>  voting machine, what would you include?
>>
>>  My list includes paper receipts for each voter to visually
>>  confirm on paper their votes cast
>
>While this sounds nice, does it actually do any good?
>
>   -- more than likely, the "paper receipt" will be thermally printed,
>which will degrade in ordinary sunlight, placed in a wallet (body heat),
>or just "time"; by the time a recount arrives, you're "ballot" will be
>as unreadable as a butterfly-ballot from Florida...
>

Of course, no one would ever be allowed to walk away from a voting 
station with real proof of how her/his vote went.  If this were 
allowed, a voter could prove to someone else how they voted, and this 
would allow them to sell a vote or, worse yet, to be forced to vote a 
certain way under threat of retaliation.  So anonymous physical 
records of individual votes must be kept exclusively by the poll 
workers to run an audit.

  I understand camera equipped cell phones are not allowed to be used 
in a voting booth.

   --Don
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