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kuangningIn California, you have the legal right to use a paper ballot if you are concerned about the reliability of electronic voting machines.
Given the enormous security vulnerabilities with electronic voting machines, I'm asking everyone to vote on paper to ensure a verifiable record exists of your vote. Don't let anyone manipulate your vote after you cast it!
Pass this message on in your journal.
(Pollworkers in Santa Clara County are being instructed not to mention this to voters, and to provide paper ballots only upon specific request.)
Source here.
... that makes me curious about how many other places either aren't offering the option or are instructing people not to let it be known that the option's there. And, of course, I'm advocating that people please use the paper option if it's at all available to you. A vote that can't be tracked is a vote that wasn't cast, in worst-case scenarios. The idea of electronic voting is a neat one, and we'll get there someday, but the implementation we currently have is frighteningly flawed. Ask for paper; it's safer.
Given the enormous security vulnerabilities with electronic voting machines, I'm asking everyone to vote on paper to ensure a verifiable record exists of your vote. Don't let anyone manipulate your vote after you cast it!
Pass this message on in your journal.
(Pollworkers in Santa Clara County are being instructed not to mention this to voters, and to provide paper ballots only upon specific request.)
Source here.
... that makes me curious about how many other places either aren't offering the option or are instructing people not to let it be known that the option's there. And, of course, I'm advocating that people please use the paper option if it's at all available to you. A vote that can't be tracked is a vote that wasn't cast, in worst-case scenarios. The idea of electronic voting is a neat one, and we'll get there someday, but the implementation we currently have is frighteningly flawed. Ask for paper; it's safer.