High hopes for unscrambling the vote

[Roy M. Silvernail]

R. A. Hettinga quotes Declan McCullagh:

>  Bottom line:The technology is still in its prototype stage--but a bigger
> obstacle may be whether notoriously conservative voting officials can be
> convinced to try something new.

That's an interesting perspective, considering electronic voting already 
*is* "something new".  A man with tinfoil inside his fez might wonder if 
this points to a greater conspiracy that hinges on the lack of a paper 
trail from the voting machines.

Speaking of which, this[1] Cringely column doesn't seem to have received 
much notice, even though it points out that the Diebold machines 
*already have a printer* built in.  While it's probably not equipped to 
do Chaumian voter receipts, it could certainly do the old-fashioned 
human-readable type.   That's a SMOP.
-- 
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