Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog

Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.

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Mon, 24 May 2004

Our Votes Must Be Counted

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I just signed a petition, to send to Congress and the secretaries of state of every state planning to use electronic voting machines, to ensure that our voting systems leave a paper trail.

After the Florida debacle, with all the flaws in the voting systems there, at least the votes could be re-counted if there was a problem. With the electronic voting machines in place in some states, some voters won't be able to verify their choices. No receipt is printed. There's no way of recounting the votes if there is a problem. And worse yet, from what I understand, the information is transmitted over insecure means, using verifiably crackable Microsoft technologies.

And when you thought it couldn't get any worse, it turns out that the head of the major supplier of these machines is a major contributor to one of the candidates. (Does is matter which one? This is clearly not an impartial manufacturer of black-box technology!)

Please sign the petition. It can't hurt, can it?