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[javasaurus]

Apparently, voting in Ohio is not necessarily anonymous.

According to this article you can obtain a list of who voted in what order, and you can obtain the list of votes, also in order. All you have to do is line up the two lists!

I suspect this will be used by Diebold (and others) as an argument for not keeping paper records.

Comments

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

This is me losing my patience.

You have these... hold on to your chairs, this is amazing technology here... boxes. And there's a hole at the top, see? You mark something out of a list of somethings, fold the list, put it in the box.

Then before they open the box they give it a good shake. Instant randomization.

No, the results are not instantaneous, yet in a country of 70 million souls they still manage to get election results out overnight, and have managed to do so for 80 years. You'll forgive me if this system of electronic voting here, and how it's shamelessly misused, makes me sick.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

not necessarily. in VA (or at least Loudoun and Fairfax where I have experience) you queue up in order at the front desk but then get in line for one of several voting machines. since people can take as long as they want in a machine, there's no guarentee at all that the order of the votes committed is the same as the order entering the queue. While I was there, 2 people behind me got there's through and one person who needed translation assistance was still going when he was there 3 people before me. In addition, one machine was paperless and thus its records weren't merged with the paper counter's records until counting time after polls closed.

or nevermind?

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

actually, there was an ID # on my card that matched a number jotted down in the sign-in book.

this sort of thing is used in legal challenges to point out that person X got away with voting but shouldn't - its how, after the fact, districts in Florida could mass-wipe votes from alleged felons even after they voted.