lone election post (tongue-in-cheek)

[eimarra]

I've noticed that Nevada's early voting has gotten a lot of national coverage in the past couple of weeks. As someone who grew up there, I wanted to mention it. For those who haven't been following along, Nevada placed electronic voting booths in places people normally visited -- malls, grocery stores, libraries -- and let people vote outside their local precinct at wherever was convenient for them. It has been phenomenally successful in terms of turnout, and a lot of pundits have been saying other states should look into following the model.

I'd like to sound a note of caution here, though.

After all, Nevada's infrastructure is built on the ability to place electronic machines of chance in any public building at a moment's notice. Other states just don't have the background to do that.

On the other hand, if IGT were supplying voting machines rather than Diebold doing so, there would probably be a lot fewer hackers getting into the systems. And they wouldn't even have to guarantee a 97% payback!

Comments

[slobbit.livejournal.com]

*snort*

But would we be able to ensure the machines were not corrupt from the factory?

[eimarra]

Well, you know, you can't guarantee that lemons won't come up. ;-)

[slobbit.livejournal.com]

Well, that way at least you know your vote's been changed!

[ca-bookwyrm.livejournal.com]

Amusing! Though, good point about Nevada already having electronic machines everywhere...

[cammykitty.livejournal.com]

It sounds like a good idea, but what about the election judges and verifying that people are registered and who they say they are? I suppose Nevada has that figured out, but it sounds like if there is a challenge to their results, it could be ugly. Although they've probably got it set up like an ATM where there's a few minutes on a surveillance camera linked up with every vote. Ah, but the anonymity thing then.

[bonniers.livejournal.com]

I think the ATM model would work here. Those things are everywhere.

[eimarra]

You know Diebold makes most of those, right?