October 17, 2003
Electonic Voting
Ken MacLeod doesn't have a high opinion of unverifiable touchscreen voting:
Touchscreen voting with no verifiable paper trail is to real voting what McJobs are to real jobs. You don't have votes, you have McVotes.You shouldn't either. Posted by Steve on October 17, 2003This is something that you wouldn't put in a science fiction novel, unless it was a blatant knock-about satire - you know, some squib about a world where Mickey Mouse runs for Governor of Florida, or Arnold Schwartznegger for Governor of California. It's too unbelievable. A good editor would call it a plot hole.
