I don't have a hard & fast opinion on this. I think I can argue both sides of this. I'll admit to a bias toward tech. It seems to me that in SOOO many examples (copyright, digital encoding, music & films and ebooks) technology ultimately triumphs over large organizations that value THEIR rights over the consumer's RIGHTS. One example of this is when CD's were first introduced. It cost music companies LESS to crank out a cd then it cost them to crank out a vinyl record. BUT they RAISED the price! And then they tried to restrict people's ability to protect their investment with back up copies by fighting consumers rights to make copies for their own use. Same with movies and DVD's.
I have bought the Beatles White album three times, on vinyl, on cassette & on cd. I would be willing to bet of that ($40.00?) investment the Beatles got less than a dollar. Who's rights are we worrying about here? The Beatles? I don't think so. They complained for a long time about how their royalties were shanghaied by the record companies.
But I digress...
Are we really sure that there are not as many problems (or maybe even more?) with e-voting as there are with paper ballots? Remember the "hanging chads" which contributed to the illegitimate election of Bush?
Here's an article on some really stupefying e voting problems
But paper ballots have problems too. Spoiled ballots, uncounted absentee ballots, voters barred from voting and more. See this article for more on this.
I'd like to have a discussion with someone on this to help me formalize an opinion on this topic.
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