On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, David Nicol wrote:
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I really don't see why state-of-the-art hardware would be needed to run a touch-screen voting machine, or even what the advantage of touch-screen over keyboard might be.
It's simple, really. If sombody were to trojan a keylogger onto the machine, then they might be able to tell how someone voted, or even, heaven forbid, total up the actual votes. I think that the threat to our American Electoral System is pretty obvious in such a worst-case scenario.
The politics at KCLUG are clearly a mixed bag, so we otta be totally immune from accusations of partisanship :)
What, you mean some KCLUG members' political views are totally incorrect, clearly wrongheaded and/or hopelessly naive? Preposterous.
Regards,
-Don, Far Centrist