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Ohio report recommends scrapping electronic voting {Engadget}
Dec 17th 2007 12:00PM "Meanwhile, things like electing a secretary of state who is a campaign fundraiser for one of the presidential candidates and works for the brother of that same candidate will keep on happening because you're all so focused on one small part of the problem that you're all missing the bigger, real problem: your utterly screwed up electoral system."
As you hinted above, that ballot was designed by the "County Clerk", an elected democrat held the position at the time of that election. Had nothing to do with the Sec. of State. or Governor.
In Ohio 2004, those ballots were also designed and (supposed to be) delivered by the elected democrat county clerk who had that responsibility.
Ohio report recommends scrapping electronic voting {Engadget}
Dec 17th 2007 10:18AM Some states/counties in the US require no proof of identity at all. Again, this has historically been considered a method of intimidating voters.
Ohio report recommends scrapping electronic voting {Engadget}
Dec 17th 2007 10:12AM "I have to wonder why it is that submitting a FAFSA online is treated with more scrutiny than a vote."
Because it is considered (right or wrong, I'm not arguing either way) intimidating and an invasion of privacy to be able to tie a specific vote to a specific person.
Ohio report recommends scrapping electronic voting {Engadget}
Dec 17th 2007 10:03AM "about eight years too late" ??
Most of these systems were put into place because of that election. They certaintly weren't the problem and it hasn't been proved or even suggested that they were hacked during an election.
Where I live in Ohio everytime I've voted in the last 5 years there is a new electronic voting machine. It will be pleasure to go back to optical scan, but I'd really like to see the comback of the chad.
Theoretically it is possible that my mailman can open and read my tax returns quite easily, but nobody's suggesting that I quit sending in the checks! This is basically an expensive mistake by the state of Ohio, but then again they're quite good at that.
Enso Launcher - the keyboard launcher I wanted to love {Download Squad}
Feb 25th 2007 9:25AM I came to your same conclusion.
I also became annoyed that it always made me completely type the action word. For example, I always had to type the word "open" completely before I could start with the application name.
Another annoyance was that it didn't "learn". It always came up with the same sorted list of choices.
It was pretty though
