Re: [tlug] Somewhat OT- open source software for US voting machines

["Edmund Edgar" <lists@example.com>]

2008/10/6 SL Baur <steve@example.com> wrote:
> You have gone to the expense of creating an electronic system
> that cannot be trusted with anything.  You still have to count
> the paper receipts.
>
> Why go to the expense of creating an electronic system when
> it is pointless?

OK, here's what I'm thinking:

You can't put 100% trust in the electronic system. (See your and Curt's earlier posts for details.)

You can't put 100% trust in the paper system. (See the rest of your latest post for details.)

The two have different kinds of vulnerabilities.

Wouldn't an electronic system keeping one count and a paper system keeping another count help here? So to steal an election you would have to simultaneously pull a Mugabe _and_ a Diebold and make them both tell the same lies?

Edmund