tom_thinks
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
More Voting Nonsense
Check this out.
The electronic voting machine people are claiming that this discrepancy is the result of voters not choosing a candidate on the touch screen machine; they argue that the voter chose not to choose. While that may explain the discrepancy, how do we really know? After all there is no paper trail, to help clarify a voter's intention.
t r u t h o u t - Report: Touch screen Voting Flawed in Florida: "An analysis of just under half of the ballots from the March 9 election shows that votes were not recorded for about one out of every 100 people using the new machines, or a 1.09 percent rate of undervotes, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported. An undervote is when a selection cannot be detected on a ballot.
That's at least eight times the number of undervotes in the same election on paper ballots marked with pencils and tallied by an optical scanner, which had a 0.12 percent rate of undervotes, the newspaper reported. "
The electronic voting machine people are claiming that this discrepancy is the result of voters not choosing a candidate on the touch screen machine; they argue that the voter chose not to choose. While that may explain the discrepancy, how do we really know? After all there is no paper trail, to help clarify a voter's intention.
posted by Tom, 7/13/2004 01:47:00 PM
