CDR: voting tech & radio buttons
Intercepted in popmedia: Some dude of Shoup Corp which makes voting machines, or used to 21 years ago (there are no parts available), demonstrated that you can lock out choices after you've pulled one lever. Which would eliminate certain bozos double-punching their political-hollerith cards. What a concept. These days we call it a radio-button. [Actually a variant, "one-shot" kinda radio button in this case, because you can't rollback your vote. That's probably a deficiency, but it might be due to this barbarian mechanical tech making illegit rollbacks possible if you allow voter rollbacks.] I suppose various floridians would like a modal message box asking, You're voting for BROWNE (LIB), is this correct? [YES] [VOTE AGAIN] Much like crypto, its User interface, user interface, user interface...
David Honig wrote:
Some dude of Shoup Corp which makes voting machines, or used to 21 years ago (there are no parts available), demonstrated that you can lock out choices after you've pulled one lever. Which would eliminate certain bozos double-punching their political-hollerith cards.
A-yup. The ugly ancient behemoth I used to cast my vote is one of these. That's the first thing I tried for fun. :) It doesn't allow you to pick more than one candidate for the same office. -- ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :aren't security. A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :masked killer, but |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often. --------_sunder_@_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------
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