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Voting Machines

tuttle88tuttle88
edited September 2006 in Everything Else
This may be a dumb question but there is something about the whole hackable voting machines I just don't get. I thought about this in 2000 with the whole "chad" buisness and the broken machines and now the tamperable machines. In Australia we use a pencil and a piece of paper, if the machines are that troublesome why keep using them?

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  • AprecheApreche
    This may be a dumb question but there is something about the whole hackable voting machines I just don't get. I thought about this in 2000 with the whole "chad" buisness and the broken machines and now the tamperable machines. In Australia we use a pencil and a piece of paper, if the machines are that troublesome why keep using them?
    We aren't the ones deciding to use them. A company named Diebold makes them and wants them to be used so they can make a lot of money. And of course, everyone says that the Republicans use them to rig the elections. There is a small amount of shady evidence to suggest this. Either way, only geeks realize the dangers of these machines. Most people don't even vote, and those that do are mostly old people. They don't think for a second that anything shady is going on.
  • tuttle88tuttle88
    I guess...it just reminds me of that story about the space race.

    The Americans spend millions of dollars working on a pen that works in space, the Russians use a pencil.

    Maybe you could get a group to go down to Florida and convince the old people that the machines are dirty or cause cancer or something and they'll be too afraid to use them. Most old people are afraid of technology so they'll be half ready to believe it. Then you can tap into the old people's political will AND their spare time.
  • KieyKiey
    We should have to fill out those scantron sheets for voting. Finally put all those years of schooling where we had to use them to good use.
  • EsonLinjiEsonLinji
    I have to second tuttle88's sentiments. We had an election today in Queensland, where everyone used a paper ballot where you numbered the candidates from 1 to n, and most of the counting was completed within 6 hours of the close of polling. It's a cheap and effective system.
  • tuttle88tuttle88
    Oh are you in Queensland. How exciting, you're going to get a recycled water referendum now aren't you?
  • EsonLinjiEsonLinji
    I'm not sure but I think the referendum was the coalitions idea. Since they lost, Beattie seems to just be going straight on with it.

    There was a vote on the matter in Toowoomba recently, and recycling water got shot down despite the fact that the local water supply is at about 25% and still dropping.

    I don't think there's much point to putting it to a vote. It needs to be done as SE Queensland is running out of water and things like building new dams aren't going to work quick enough. Recycling water is going to be necessary to ensure a continued water supply, unless we do something really crazy like ship in a glacier and drop it in one of the dams.
  • blast flameblast flame
    This may be a dumb question but there is something about the whole hackable voting machines I just don't get. I thought about this in 2000 with the whole "chad" buisness and the broken machines and now the tamperable machines. In Australia we use a pencil and a piece of paper, if the machines are that troublesome why keep using them?
    We aren't the ones deciding to use them. A company named Diebold makes them and wants them to be used so they can make a lot of money. And of course, everyone says that the Republicans use them to rig the elections. There is a small amount of shady evidence to suggest this. Either way, only geeks realize the dangers of these machines. Most people don't even vote, and those that do are mostly old people. They don't think for a second that anything shady is going on.
    They don't need to rig them. Right and left are two sides of the same coin.
  • tuttle88tuttle88
    unless we do something really crazy like ship in a glacier and drop it in one of the dams.
    Like on Futurama with the Global Warming.
  • PhantasosPhantasos
    We should have to fill out those scantron sheets for voting. Finally put all those years of schooling where we had to use them to good use.
    I have a parttime job at Kaplan test prep and I can tell you that this would be a horrible idea. It's frightening how many LSAT and MCAT student' don't know how to use a scantron. Let alone old people who can't see well in the first place.
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