Joe Hale wrote:
>
> Here in Georgia, the voting was completely automated.
> I'll admit I felt a little uneasy with no visible ballot.
> The touch screen voting machines installed over the last
> two years lack the advantage of
> transparency. How do I know that in the thousands of
> lines of programming code someone didn't slip in a line
> of code that subtly skews the results? I don't mean to
> sound paranoid and I'm not a Ludite. But
> even though computers have lots of advantages, their
> functioning is not transparent to the ordinary citizen.
>
Occam's razor. *If* the candidates aren't worried that
they will be skewed, then you shouldn't. Unless you
plan to invalidate the vote, of course :-)
Alberto Monteiro
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