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[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Bah:
I want to see transparent mechanical systems. Clean out the silly ass 
chads and oil the hinges. Electronic media are much too plastic...pf

Andrew Vida wrote:
> 
> Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
>> I'd much rather place voting machine design
>>   in the hands of the steam punk folks..pf
> 
> 	They are certainly more honest.
> 
> 	Electronic voting should be banned forever - no exceptions.  After the 
> 2000 elections, anyone trusting those contraptions would have to be a 
> low-grade idiot.  I would be far more inclined to trust them if the code 
> were public domain.  This would allow for peer-review by people a whole 
> hell of a lot smarter than those who designed it.  But there would also 
> have to be in place a set of protocols for handling the machines so that 
> there would be no switcheroos or other funny business.  Such protocols 
> actually already exist for network security and could be adapted for 
> this specific application.  I would also remove the manufacturer from 
> the loop completely - too much potential conflict of interest there.  It 
> *could* be made safe and secure.
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