Can democracy in America survive electronic voting?

[aeon flux]

Electronic voting may place the integrity of elections in the unchallenged, unscrutinized control of a few large - and pro-Republican – corporations while software concerns raise questions about the reliability and security of electronic voting.

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[Benhurst]

1. No. n/t

[lysergik]

2. Absolutely not

If our constitutional right to vote is compromised, like is planned with these vocal big business voting machine companies who have said they support the likes of Shrub and his cronies throughout the US, democracy is in grave danger.

Voting will no longer be an extension of the citizens voice, it will be that of big business in America.

[DUreader]

3. It cannot

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. No n/t

[Festivito]

5. No, it gives up the right to a chain of custody.

We had lost that before with those lever machines. Some of those machines were filed to ignore votes for certain candidates.

Paper is the only reasonable retention format we can trust.

The computer could print the names chosen and a BAR CODE for easy tabulation by machine. In fact a bar code could stop unscrupulous poll workers from tampering with ballots by spoiling ballots into by making them overvotes. But, those papers must be able to be hand tabulated without machines. Yes, paper is best.

[SharonAnn]

6. Well Bar Code is not Voter Verifiable so it's no good either.

You could have the ballot printed with one candidate's name in English and another candidate's name in Bar Code.

WYSINWYG. What you "see" is not what you get.

[Festivito]

7. Yes, BOTH, name and bar code. The technology is easy.

Certainly, the name has to be printed in alphabetic letters FOR RECOUNTS. During a recount the office and candidate name can be read off the page, called out, tallied and checked against the machine count of read bar codes.

Any bubble jet or better printer can print one that can be read by a scanner.

[Forkboy]

8. I have strong doubts that it can.

[mmonk]

9. Yes

as long as it has redundancy such as a hard copy verification for the voter.