NYCPHP Meetup

[Ajai Khattri]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, bzcoder wrote:

> Voting systems have to be at a level that volunteers can monitor and 
> help out people who are voting.
> 
> Computer geeks are slow to volunteer to help out on election day, 
> therefore systems have to be simplified so people who predate computers 
> can use them while at the same time cannot be prone to tampering by a 
> few geeks who do volunteer.
> 
> Than the few computer geeks who are interested go off and create  an 
> open source project that is geared to stuff their philosophy of 
> computing down everyone else's throat, while still not being simple and 
> intuitive for my grandma to use.

I think a lot of prominent geeks already said the machines were not secure 
without some kind of hardcopy audit trail. But this government has a habit 
of ignoring experts in anything (e.g. can you say "DMCA"? ).


-- 
Aj.