Cringely Pt 2: Best voting tech = No voting tech

[tom bldr <tom_bldr@xxxxxxxxx>]

I just noticed this "part 2" to Robert X. Cringely's
excellent two-part article on e-voting, posted on
12/11:

part 1:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20031204.html
(from 12/4)

part 2:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20031211.html
(from 12/11)

excerpt:

As for voting itself, I think we have made a horrible
decision to solve this problem with technology.  While
the voting technology we have been considering is
flawed, the best answer doesn't have to be some other
voting technology that is somehow better.  We turn to
technology because it supposedly eliminates human
error.  I suggest that we add humans to the process in
order to eliminate technological errors.  And we'd
save a lot of money in the process.



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