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David Hartley
Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: Drh2020
Post Number: 1
Registered: 07-2006
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 5, 2006 - 3:14 pm: | 
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Back in the last stolen election I was fuming about the fact that voters never get a receipt as proof of their vote, plus the fact that access to voting locations is still a joke. I asked myself, is there a current model of a system that is in place, gives you a receipt of the the choices you can clearly and easily pencil in, and is located nearly everywhere? Voila! Lottory machines! It seems to me that they could be retrofitted for voting and be secured using free/open source methodology - can we consider leveraging this technology to further our so-called Democracy? |
Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 5353
Registered: 12-2004
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Thursday, July 6, 2006 - 4:24 am: |
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David,
Welcome to Black Box Voting. I see you have been "thinking outside the box" and this is the kind of thing we need.
Retrofitting the lottery machines probably wouldn't work. If we are to use machines for voting, it does require some complexity you won't find in a lottery machine. We've managed to create a nearly impossible set of regulations in each state regarding overlapping districts for various races, ballot rotations and so forth, making designing voting machines more complex than most people realize at first.
It's great to see you here.
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