I already cast my vote at one of the early voting locations. It was quick and easy. The touchscreens were a lot nicer than the punchcards and checking your ballot was far easier. (I must admit though that long before 2000, I had the habit of pulling out my card, making sure the right holes were punched and there were no chads. I don't think I was suspicious though. I learned to do that in the olden days when computer programs were run by punchcards and a hanging chad caused your program not to run.)
If you want to vote early, here are the LA County locations. You need no id or preregistration. Walk in. VOTE.
Posted by Justene Adamec at October 26, 2004 07:10 AM | TrackBackHmm. Touch screens. Without a paper trail, there is zero guarantee that the vote recorded is actually the vote cast. They may be nice and easy to use, but they're a terribly insecure way to run an election. (That said, the old vote-o-matic punchcards were one of the most confusing ways to run an election; LA County's elections department seems particularly prone to bad decision-making).
Things get better if they generate a paper copy of the ballot which can be recounted by hand later. Do they do that in LA County yet?
Posted by: aphrael at October 26, 2004 09:02 AM (Permalink)Compared to not having to show ID, I'm not sure I care about a lack of paper trail much.
A paper trail on votes by people who could with no effort at all not even be the persons they claim to be wouldn't seem to improve much.
I want both, personally; a paper trail and an ID requirement. (Which is a nice thing about the system here in Oregon, where we almost all vote by mail - nobody gets to claim to be you without stealing your mail, and there's a paper-trail of ballots filled out with pen or pencil by the voter directly. No chad problems, no partial punches, none of that.)
Posted by: Sigivald at October 27, 2004 10:34 AM (Permalink)Up in Sacramento, we have a Scantron-style ballot- the ballot box scans it, then drops the ballot in the box. It has the advantage of both a quick record AND a paper trail.
My husband says that a good way to go would be thermal-printed computer-generated filled ballots - IOW, you pick your choices, the computer prints out your cleanly filled out ballot, and that ballot is scanned and dropped. No overvotes, no badly-filled ovals, and a tamper-resistant paper trail. (It's far easier to destroy a thermal printing than to change it.)
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