Is better than...
Remember Minority Report? Those wooden balls?
We should use a system like that. A voter would enter the polling place and be
handed a brown ball as a ballot. The ball would be etched with the his or her
votes, then sealed and dropped into the
box.
Anyone voting absentee will be given a red ball and a kit for etching and sealing the ball, as well as a mailer and call slip.
Yes it would be possible to tamper with the vote, but the number possible would be very low. Someone trying to stuff the ballot would have to obtain a large number of balls from the same stock of wood the real election officials are using. They'd also have to use the same chemicals to seal the ball, and the same type of etching equipment. They'd have to manage to get truckloads of fraudulent ballots into the official count, just to make a difference.
Silly, I know. But it's about as far off in the other direction as the electronic method as I could make it.
Anyone voting absentee will be given a red ball and a kit for etching and sealing the ball, as well as a mailer and call slip.
Yes it would be possible to tamper with the vote, but the number possible would be very low. Someone trying to stuff the ballot would have to obtain a large number of balls from the same stock of wood the real election officials are using. They'd also have to use the same chemicals to seal the ball, and the same type of etching equipment. They'd have to manage to get truckloads of fraudulent ballots into the official count, just to make a difference.
Silly, I know. But it's about as far off in the other direction as the electronic method as I could make it.
Posted: Thursday - September 04, 2003 at 01:12 PM |
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