Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Campaign to Ban Paperless Voting

The good folks over at MoveOn.org have created an online petition to ban paperless voting, and good on them for doing it.

No one who has ever worked in Information Technology (i.e., computers) can deny that the current electronic voting schemes in place in the various states are a far cry from being transparent, from being trustworthy, from being fair.

So drop by and sign the petition calling on the Democratic members of congress to take immediate steps to ban paperless voting before it's too late.

The last thing we want to see in November is another Ohio debacle. Our representative democracy is fragile enough as it is. Let's do everything we can to resuscitate it.

2 Comments:

Anonymous said...

Ok, IT guy takes the bate...

Not only should there be a paper trail, you should be able to go to any library and verify that you really voted the way you thought you did...

Farnsworth68 said...

Okay, except how do you get around that whole thorny and pesky "secret ballot" thing? If you can see it, then the government -- or anyone else -- can see it.
Is that what we really want?