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Hacking The Vote
Although California's "top-to-bottom review" of voting machines from Sequoia, Diebold, and Hart An interesting anecdote: The last time I voted, about a dozen of us waited in line for our turn to mark our paper ballots in one of the private voting cubicles even through two electronic voting machines were standing by. The polling place manager kept inquiring if anyone wanted to use one of the machines; she got no takers. When asked how many citizens had opted to go the automated route, she ruefully shook her head and said "just three." This was at 4 p.m., after the polls had been open all day. And, being in the heart of Silicon Valley, it's hardly a Luddite constituency. In fact, one well-dressed man in his 50s spoke up. "We all know too much to trust technology," he said, and a number of other waiting voters nodded. What do you think? Have you voted on a voting machine? How confident were you that the results were accurate? Do you feel there should be more safeguards in place before we depend on these systems? Let us know by responding to the InformationWeek blog. « Rumors Flying About Potential New Apple Products | Main | Just How Successful Are Google's Mobile Initiatives? » |
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