Will high-tech save or sink future elections? MSNBC!

[phoebe]

http://www.msnbc.com/news/826193.asp?0cb=-a1-135833

Haven't read it through - just wanted to get it out there..

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Oct. 31 — On a crisp autumn morning in 2012, George got a call from his ballot box. He’d been tinkering with his presidential vote on the Netphone for weeks, and had dropped it in the e-mailbox just the night before. Now the election system’s voicemail was calling him back to verify his vote. A recorded message read off the confirmation numbers, as usual — but this time around, the digits didn’t match. George thought for a moment: Was it just a glitch, or did someone actually do what the crypto company said was impossible? Had his vote been hacked?

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Statistics from the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project indicate that touch-screen machines have performed about as poorly as the infamous punch-card machines over the past 12 years.

[On the Road]

1. Great! Just Ask the Questions!

Get it in the public's minds. Once there's open discussion on the issue and people start to think about it, they can't possibly keep installing these new electronic systems.

Half the battle is gettin it on the agenda.

[chenGOD]

2. Watch out for Windows....

Check this article from CBS. I know it's only being offered to 100,000 voters, but still....

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/12/politics/main562983.shtml

[Nottingham]

3. Thank you MIT!!

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