Oct 11, 2010
Comparing the accountability of voting machines and slot machines
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I have no idea if this is accurate, but it wouldn’t surprise me. Can anyone confirm or disconfirm?
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I can’t confirm, but I have no doubt it’s true. For every case in which a voting machine has been shown to be faulty, the manufacturers have some explanation for it: “You used the wrong code,” “That’s isn’t how it’s used in an actual election,” etc. Personally, I think electronic voting should be banned.
I can’t confirm the info on slot machines, but can on the voting machines. (I’m a political scientist.) They are very insecure; some can have voters’ votes changed just by touching particular places on the screen, and the lack of a required paper trail in 23 states means that those voters have no way of knowing whether their votes were counted accurately. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a good compilation of news articles, court cases, and opinion pieces on the subject here: http://www.eff.org/issues/e-voting
If you don’t know about it yet, be sure you read about what this U. of Michigan prof and a few students managed to do when invited to try hacking the new internet voting system that D.C. election officials were going to start using this November:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8109
While I can’t confirm, that does ring true given the history of e-voting machines.
There’s a clear record of major security flaws and bugs on those systems. They are positively scary in how bad they are. I may love technology, but I always insist on a paper ballot.
The eff link above has lots of good information.
it is quite fun to play on slot machines specially if you win a lot _
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