{"id":6451,"date":"2004-08-31T21:43:32","date_gmt":"2004-09-01T04:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/08\/31\/every-vote-counts.html"},"modified":"2004-08-31T21:43:32","modified_gmt":"2004-09-01T04:43:32","slug":"every_vote_coun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/31\/every_vote_coun.html","title":{"rendered":"Every vote counts?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A particularly pessimistic compilation of tales where Bright Shiny Electronic Voting Machines have turned out to have not only had errors, but had errors of a magnitude such that the results of the issue or race at hand was backwards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How do voting-machine makers respond to these reports? With shrugs. They indicate that their miscounts are nothing to be concerned about. One of their favorite phrases is: “It didn’t change the result.”
\nExcept, of course, when it did.<\/p>\n

Should be required reading. I like the idea of Bright Shiny Electronic Voting Machines, but I’m in the software biz — I know <\/em>how errors can creep in, or not be discovered until stuff is in production. Which means some sort of non-computerized audit trail for these voting systems is absolutely essential.<\/p>\n

(via RISKS<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A particularly pessimistic compilation of tales where Bright Shiny Electronic Voting Machines have turned out to have not only had errors, but had errors of a magnitude such that the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4748,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/13\/sometimes_the_o.html","url_meta":{"origin":6451,"position":0},"title":"Sometimes the old ways are best","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Jan-04 10:12am","format":false,"excerpt":"After the butterfly ballot brouhaha in Florida 2000, there's been a concerted effort to get new, bright, shiny, computerized, touch-screen, electronic voting machines out to the populace. 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