Kudos to Dvice, which put together this pretty gosh darn interesting map of voting machines in the U S of A. The map shows, county by county, what type of voting machine is in use—electronic, paper, optical scan lever and punch card—and ranks them on how error prone they are. Electronic voting machines are less error prone, while punch cards—remember Florida?—are most error prone. While Dvice rates electronic voting machines as least error prone, Homer Simpson ran into some problems.
Dvice also rates the voting machines on their hackability—electronic voting machines are most hackable. Those of you using old-style levers—that’s most of the counties in New York state—have nothing to worry about there.
My home county in New York state, Dutchess, seems to be using electronic voting machines. I wonder: is it illegal to bring a video camera and record my act of voting in order to show it off for a post?
I recently asked a guy who lives in Norway if they used electronic voting machines: they use paper.
The easiest way to steal an election is by electronic voting machines. No true Democracy should EVER use them. I won’t be too shocked if McCain ‘miraculously’ wins. Deeply saddened by my countries’ doom, but not shocked. Not after the last eight years of lying, spying, and theft.
“Lying, Spying, and Theft”, the new hit single by M.C. “Killa” McCain and D.J. “Pig-Lipstick” Palin.
“Lying, Spying, and Theft”, the new hit single by M.C. “Killa” McCain and D.J. “Pig-Lipstick” Palin.
Verrry nice. But I think ‘Pig-Lips’ Palin works a little better: more alliterative and still gets the lipstick meme across.
Doesn’t sound illicit to me. Go try and find out ;)
BTW is it just me or does Georgia look like the greenest state out there? I guess we’re just that good here in the ATL.
The data are provided by “Election Data Services”, who list among their wares election-related software, as well as consulting on voting equipment. I suspect they have a vested interest in making the nation believe that electronic voting is infallible.
I live in Canada, and we make do with little slips of paper on which we mark an X next to the candidate’s name. However, we don’t have to elect the police chief and the dog catcher and vote on several sketchy and bigoted ballot initiatives in addition to choosing the head of government all on the same ballot.
yea, we use paper too – can’t believe the US uses such dodgy voting systems …
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