Tom Piwowar > Great long article in the NY Times... > Can You Count on Voting Machines? <snip>
I saw an article ... somewhere ... about a proposal to make vote verification much simpler. After voting, you would be given a copy of a randomly selected ballot that wasn't yours. The ballot would have a serial number, the serial numbers wouldn't match to names, they would match to the ballot, that is the list of ballots and how each one voted would be preserved. If <10% of the people would check how the ballot they had verified with the reported vote, the safety of the ballot would be assured. I'm not a mathematician but it does sound simple. Who knows, it may even work! -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Keyboard missing - Press <F1> to continue ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************