Touch Screen Voting

AGDLynn · #1 03-02-2004, 12:36 PM

Yeah! I voted today with the new screens. Granted, it was 10 am, no lines and only 3 items to be voted on (Pres, flag and liquor on Sunday). It about took 5 minutes!!

Less than the 10 minutes I waited to talk to a bank official about getting a replacement ATM card (actually, I left after 10 minutes, waited the next day and walked in to another branch and did it in 3 minutes!)

Kevin · #2 03-02-2004, 12:58 PM

I'm not sure how I like the idea of having a vote with no physical record.

Here in Oklahoma, I think we have a great comprimise. Optical scanner voting. You take a marker and complete a line for the candidate you wish to vote for. There is a card with the physical vote AND the counting is virtually error-proof.

The1calledTKE · #3 03-02-2004, 01:26 PM

I voted today too. Don't care for the touch screen because its proven that they can be hacked by hackers which could chnage the results.

Kevin · #4 03-02-2004, 02:16 PM

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Originally posted by The1calledTKE
I voted today too. Don't care for the touch screen because its proven that they can be hacked by hackers which could chnage the results.

That fact, coupled with the fact that there is no physical record of votes that can be manually counted makes for some scary stuff.

If folks want to manipulate the voting, they should at least have to put forth some kind of effort.

aephi alum · #5 03-02-2004, 09:47 PM

I also voted today - after driving all around town looking for the new polling place they hadn't told us about.

My town still uses lever voting machines. We used optical scanners for one election a couple of years ago; the lever machines couldn't handle the number of candidates and positions being voted on. I prefer the scanners, especially after the election officials messed up programming the lever machines last fall and I had to wait on line for over an hour to vote.

I'm also a little leery of the touch-screen voting system, at least until the technology is a little better established and hacker-resistant.

madmax · #6 03-03-2004, 04:53 PM

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Originally posted by ktsnake
That fact, coupled with the fact that there is no physical record of votes that can be manually counted makes for some scary stuff.

If folks want to manipulate the voting, they should at least have to put forth some kind of effort.

Plus they are difficult for Democrats to figure out. If someone like David Duke was running the Democrats would probably vote for him by mistake because his name starts with a D.

Rudey · #7 03-03-2004, 04:56 PM

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Originally posted by madmax
Plus they are difficult for Democrats to figure out. If someone like David Duke was running the Democrats would probably vote for him by mistake because his name starts with a D.

LOL

-Rudey

Kevin · #8 03-03-2004, 05:17 PM

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Originally posted by madmax
Plus they are difficult for Democrats to figure out. If someone like David Duke was running the Democrats would probably vote for him by mistake because his name starts with a D.

Damn.. good point.

That whole situation was just hilarious though. You have to commend those people for having the guts to come forth and essentially say that they were too dumb to read their ballot and connect the dots.

AllUnderstood · #9 03-03-2004, 06:07 PM

this worries me a little bit....i read somewhere that you can hack into those things which clearly WILL happen....only a matter of time. lets stick to paper.