Do you think that electronic voting will help in tallying votes or just hinder the process?
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Ed // October 26, 2006 at 1:30 pm
Electronic voting scares me because, unlike the current mechanical devices, you can’t look and see what’s happening “under the hood” of the machines. Voting is a relatively simple process: in parts of Africa they do it by dropping different colored rocks (representing various candidates) into a big, sealed jar — it’s simple and difficult to game if there are good checks in place.
I think an ideal voting system would be a very simple one based on technology that anyone can understand. If people feel they can’t trust the polling method, I think it casts a pall over the whole system.