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NeoGreen Donating Member (299 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 08:05 AM
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What would it take to create our own non-profit organization that provided/manufactured verifiable and secure electronic voting systems.

That is, one that provided a paper trail and provided access the "code" to those states/counties that signed up.

Could this be done at costs lower then Diebold/SAIC etc. ?

Just a thought.
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molly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 08:07 AM
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1. I saw a clip a couple of weeks ago on India's voting
they all use the same machines which are locked up after voting and taken to a central location for the counts.
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 08:07 AM
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2. Done
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 08:22 AM
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3. Your idea is a good one.
However, based on the principle that Democracy is dead if the voters don't trust the election, I believe that we need more security than
you suggestion offers.

1. The vote casting and counting process must be taken out of the hands of partisans.

2. The vote casting process must be simple, quick and TOTALLY verifiable.

3. There must be a hard copy, unchangeable vote log that is made published so that all can verify their vote.

4. Each vote(transaction) should be tied to a specific American citizen social security number that is related to an individual
id name and personal access code.

5. The votes could be cast throughout the last two weeks of October either (a) login online (b) login at public facilities, i.e. post office or libraries (c) or if unable to operate a computer, go to a
federally regulated voting place anytime during the two week period
to use touch screen, still verifying SS#, personal ID name and personal access code.

6. On November 2, all voting logs would be published in local newspapers or made available at a public facility by precinct.
Every vote for the precinct would be displayed:
VOTER ID "happyapplejunk" Pres - dem VP - dem Senator novote
At the end of the report would be the tallying of all votes.
Each precinct tally would be added to the state totals. The arithmetic
would be totally transparent and correct. The results of the election
could be verified during the first week of November.

7. The seriousness of the need to have totally honest and accurate
elections justifies whatever costs it might require to put them in place.
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