Hanging Chads have been Replaced by Hanging Bytes

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Saturday 27th November 2004 :
Hanging Chads have been Replaced by Hanging Bytes

RECOUNT OHIO PRINTERS IN PRECINCTS 2006 (Rush Holt’s bill) [e-mail]

You like fast food, how about fast voting? Here is a miracle technology. It is called paper. If the U.S. had simple paper ballots -- and no voting machines for voters at all -- how long do you think the lines would have been in Ohio? Answer: 700 people could vote in 15 minutes in one large auditorium, like a college classroom (copying neighbor’s work allowed, but not encouraged). While precincts could still be open all day, in theory poll workers could knock it out in a morning and then off to Starbucks. Some Ohioans waited 13 hours to vote, why? Because of MACHINES: http://www.theneighborhoodnetwork.org/Video/Vote/Vote.html. Remember machines are supposed to make life better? I think that includes shorter lines. Indeed, hanging chads have been replaced by hanging bytes. One of my points is that it IS the machines that are the problem at least at the "point of vote." The machines should be used to do mundane tasks like add up the votes at the end of the night. But filling out a paper form to vote is FUN. Even confidence-inspiring. Even quicker! Results should be transferred by car to county office, NOT MODEM. Each ballot could have a pre-keyed serial number and voter tears off seral number for later checking of vote on the internet (see no printers). Let the machines tabulate at the end of the night at the I:in office. In front of bi-partisan witnesses! I love machines. I fix them for a living. But America, fellow IT professionals, please dispute the following if you can: ONE person can change the results of a national election in less than one hour if they have the modem phone numbers or IP address of the particular central tabulator personal computers in key counties in key battleground states.

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