A while ago, I read a decent article about the problems with electronic voting machines. I encourage any of you who value your vote, and value democracy, to boycott voting machines (especially of the Diebold variety), and to insist upon voting using a paper ballot. Iowa’s fill-in-the-circle ballots are great.

The biggest problem with electronic voting machines is lack of verifiability. If there’s a bug (either naive or malicious) in the software, so that votes are counted incorrectly, how can it be tracked or challenged? How can you recount in the case of a discrepancy?

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