e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

[Trei, Peter]

Miles Fidelman wrote:

>Peter Trei wrote:
>> All I want is a system which is not more easily screwed around with then
>> paper ballots.

>I think it's called OCR

Actually, I think its called 'Optical Mark Sense'.

>Paper ballots, marked by the voter, not by software, then counted by
>software:
>- the ballot and the audit document are one and the same - no opportunity
>for software to mess with the printed record
>- option for a quick and dirty recount by feeding the ballots through a
>different counting machine (maybe with different software, from a
>different vendor)
>- further option for a manual recount of the original ballots (which are
>probably more legible than any machine-printed receipts)
>Oh, and by the way, these are the only kind of electronic voting machines
>approved, so far, in Mass.
>Miles Fidelman

Indeed, thats where I live, and the tech we use. It pretty much fits
all the requirements.

The only complaints I've heard are:

* It doesn't randomize the order of candidate presentation.
* No provision for dealing with the blind.