I heard yet more argument about the potential problems with the electronic voting system that is set up in FL. Why, in this day and age, are we faced with a situation where the voting machines that will be used in FL will not have any paper trail? It is such an obvious feature, I can't imagine for the life of me how that could have slipped anyone's mind.

It would be so easy:

1. you vote, it prints out a receipt, you drop the receipt in a box
2. you vote, it records your vote on a printout kept it the machine or prints out a copy of the vote to an external printer

The technology certainly exists, it just amazes me that something like this could even become an issue.

Now, the common reply is that "it's too late to do anything about it now." Fair enough, but all of this could have been avoided so easily. Blows my mind that no one -- no republicans, no democrats, no independents -- thought it might be a good idea to have a way to manually back-up the electronic machines before having the damn things built.

Crazy.

i'm all for the hanging chad!!

Re: Electronic Voting in FL

I think you actually covered this in the thread I started a while back on voting machines there toast for the roast. I agree with you, but at the same time ..... I think it would be interesting to see someone hack the holy hell out of the machines, if only just a few in some small town. At least it would make things more interesting. :Naughty: