[LINK] Fwd: vip-l: Electronic votiing

[Eric Scheid]

On 17/11/06 8:56 AM, "Craig Sanders" <cas at taz.net.au> wrote:

> even if the printer punched braille holes in the paper as well as
> printing on it, they have no way of knowing whether the braille matches
> the printed vote....and it's the printed vote which is the one that is
> going to be counted. and, as has been pointed out before, not all blind
> people can read braille anyway - it is a dying skill, with audio-books
> being very common these days and voice synthesis getting better.

Point taken on blind Braille readers ... however, who says the Braille isn't
going to be read at all when votes are counted? It would be trivial to take
the stack of manually counted vote slips and feed them through a Braille
reader to confirm that all have the same vote.

If any vote slips which have "Candidate A" printed on them turn out to have
"Candidate B" in Braille then we know the vote has been rigged. If the
people desiring to rig the Braille vote know that the Braille is going to be
cross-checked then they'll have to think twice.

e.