[ExI] electronic voting again

Mike Dougherty msd001 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 8 00:19:13 UTC 2012


On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 7:01 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> So here we are, coming up for the fifith major US election just since I have
> been hanging out on extropians, or ninth if you count congressional
> midterms.  Every other year we get to discussing end-to-end auditable voting
> systems, and every time it never happens.  You would think in all that time
> of having the technology and an identified problem that we would have
> somehow solved it by now, but we are no closer to having that system now
> than we were 16 yrs ago.  This time we are coming up on an election with
> enormous long term consequences, and ever greater risk of a disputed
> election.  Yet somehow we just can’t seem to get any traction on a problem
> that can be solved with fairly straightforward technology.

The problem you have identified can be solved with technology.  I
think the question is whether or not this is a problem that anyone
with the power to solve actually wants to do so.  I'm pretty sure
clowns can drive larger cars too but it's not in the nature of clowns.




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