Posted on 10/22/2004 1:58:20 PM PDT by winodog
Actually, there are cryptographic protocols that handle this rather well. You can have secret ballots where the eligibility of the voter is verified, the vote can be verified (i.e., it's auditable), and each individual vote is verifiable. Bruce Schneier wrote about it in Applied Cryptography. The problem is that any system that satisfies all three requirements, (verification, auditability, secrecy), is pretty darn complex. I cannot imagine having enough trust in the government that they could pull off such a complex thing successfully without having at least one of the thre requirements be violated.
Dumbest article of the week ping!
haha I will have to find something good to make up for it then.
That wouldn't stop the media from conducting exit polls, which would leak regardless. The only solution - as close as we can get to a complete solution, anyway - is to establish a nationwide unified voting time, where all polls open and close at the same time, reagardless of time zones.
I don't know about the rest of the article, but ES&S certainly warrants scrutiny--I remember researching them and some related companies during the 2000 election and there's an interesting story there. . .
In the video that originally went with that book just prior to the 2000 election (after which Collier jumped on the anti-Bush bandwagon), an interesting point was made that although Jeb Bush was governor of Florida, the government positions involved in the vote monitoring process had been appointed by Democrats. The 2000 edition of their book also has some interesting information on Janet Reno's Florida period and its relation to Senator Bob Graham and to Katharine Graham's use of "Washington Post"/CBS affiliates to rig elections in Florida.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha
What a joke.
Yes, they definitely can - particularly when they have also been put in charge of "exit polling" so you can be sure the exit totals will match the actual results they are feeding the news anchors.
Wouldn't want some inconvenient discrepancies to pop up.
I can't believe they've been given all this power.
My favorite lines:
"Computer experts say that signals can travel both to and from computerized voting machines through wireless technology, modems, and even simple electricity."
but this is the howler:
"The AP is batting for a Bush presidency."
demonRAT rule #1) Accuse the other side of what you yourself are guilty of ...
Yeah, that part's kinda funny :)
Isn't AP owned by the Reverand Moon?
Ever since 2000, that's how things have been in Montana. If you don't have a photo ID, you don't vote.
If Gore hadn't been a sore loser, and Voter News Service hadn't jumped the gun on Florida, we wouldn't be reading articles like this.
I don't trust it either. But then, I don't trust early voting, absentee balloting, election judges, or those who are supposed to ensure that the votes cast are legitimate. In other words, I have no faith whatsoever in the process anymore.
Tehy lost credibility with this one .... one word, FIREWALLS!
It's kind of amusing, almost, to see our politicians simultaneously push for a National Photo ID Card, but deny any identification requirement to VOTE. I can't even rent a movie from Blockbuster without showing proof of ID.
Most articles don't refer to us as citizens - just "voters". What's happening is LEGAL citizens are being DISENFRANCHISED with vote dilution, and possibly invalid election. Time for this nonsense to go away in 2004. If any candidate wins fair and square in an open and honest election, it's OK with me. Might not like it, but there's always 2008.
Could the associated press rig the election?
Only on days that end in "y".
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