Absurd.

…if we have to throw away our votes, we had better do so upon a worthy, rather than upon an unworthy individual, who might make use of the weapon we put in his hand to destroy us with.

And in D&C 134:1:

We believe that governments were instituted of God for the benefit of man; and that he holds men accountable for their acts in relation to them, both in making laws and administering them, for the good and safety of society.

So regardless of whether my vote is counted accurately, I will vote.

Now look what’s happened.

Hey maybe they could add a lever to the side. Then when you have no idea who the candidates are for those useless offices in our bloated government, you could let the machine randomly pick one :D

Or something like that.

This graphic on Vegas slot machine verification was interesting.

The only problem with the open source model is that with the code being open to the public, people can easily access it and attempt to subvert it. That is the benefit of a proprietary system – it’s much harder for would-be hackers to know how to thwart the code.

I’m a liberal vegetarian ex-Mormon atheist. I regard John Birch literature as — what’s the Hebrew word — ritually unclean. I’m sure that an actual conversation would be irritating for both of us.

So how come I find myself agreeing with you on more than a few political issues? Like we both can’t stand Bush (it seems), and even for the same reasons. Polling machines are to be mistrusted. Could it be that we’re both extremists, since all extremists resemble each other? Or do we both just make sense in accidentally converging ways? I dunno.

Back on topic. I’d support voting machines if they printed a paper receipt and if the innards could be examined by independent auditors anytime, sort of like they do with Las Vegas slot machines. How say you?