Electronic voting redux

[andygates]

This one should get gedhrel's blood boiling: Sequoia Voting Systems's machines have a little button on the back that puts them into Manual Mode where you can vote all you like. Mmm, secure and traceable. Full dirt at the declaredly-partisan Smirking Chimp (link fixed!). 

So, all you Americans lucky enough to be faced with a Sequoia machine and unhappy with untraceable, riggable, stealable elections sold on the backs of tech from prominent Party donors (and they can't prove it ain't so), press that button and vote a gazillion times for the most absurd candidate you've got. That way, you void the thing without putting a main-party fight on it, and the ludicrous and obscene pork-barrel that is electronic voting can be put to a decent death (or at least to decent standards, which are out there and which everyone who gives a damn knows include a freaking PAPER TRAIL).

If you get arrested for vote-interference I will bail you with my pocket money and stand you the price of a beer, too.

Comments

[simoneck.livejournal.com]

We seem to be saying 'that's just unbelieveable' with regards to the USA a lot at the moment. Doesn't really lessen something that makes a complete mockery of the democratic process (not that we are immune on this side of the ocean, with the joys of postal voting being pushed atm).
And for a conspiracy angle, that website seems to be down.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

The difference in climate is that the important part of the message - no electronic voting without a verified paper trail - seems to be sounding as strident whingeing in the US, while in the UK it's closer to a sane spec. Well, we can hope.

I still think that counting bits of paper works just fine and is amazingly transparent. Cui bono with electronic voting?

[flitljm.livejournal.com]

Website not down, just too many https in Andy's link.

[thudthwacker.livejournal.com]

Part of the problem, I think, is that the "we need a transparent election process" people are often lumped in with the "the last election was stolen" people, and that latter group is generally considered to be a member organization of the Tin Foil Hat Brigade. Unfairly, I think, but still, the issues need to be kept separate.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

They do: I'm genuinely surprised that there aren't more from the conservative side of the fence who want a transparent election process just to shut up the frothing lefties.