"E-voting underachieves" opinion in E-week

["Pete Klammer" <pklammer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Scot Petersen -

Thank you so much for your article "E-voting underachievers", in eWeek
Magazine, July 26, 2004 (or see www.eweek.com), for having the testicular
fortitude to tell it like it is, about the danger of paperless voting, to
our trade and industry, the electronic enterprise enthusiasts so enamored of
e-anything.  I think my mindset might have been with yours, sometime before
2000, in thinking that elections needed more automation.  But what a long,
strange trip it's been, eh?  Your enlightened consciousness-raising puts the
story in just the right nutshell: "better to have haning chads than no chads
at all."  Since I expect some e-heavyweights of the industry, such as the
ITAA or The Election Center, may try to put you down, I wanted to be sure
you knew there are thousands of us, e-nthusiasts all, who back you up.
Invisible, artificial, synthetic voting systems are unnecessary, and extreme
insistence on it is extremely suspicious.

Best regards,
 --
Pete Klammer / ACM(1970), IEEE, ICCP(CCP), NSPE(PE), NACSE(NSNE)
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