November 11, 2000

6:15 PM

ELECTION: A note of sanity on voting systemsfrom Lauren Weinstein's well-worth reading Privacy Digest; it notes the inherent weak spots in all voting tally systems, and compares manual to machine and electronic ones.
posted by baylink (3 comments total)

". . . incompletely punched ballot selections,
usually in the form of "hanging chad". . ."

I had that once. Painful.
posted by rodii at 8:30 AM on November 12, 2000

KNOW YOUR CHAD
posted by rodii at 3:00 PM on November 12, 2000

Naah... the proper reference for 'chad' is here.
posted by baylink at 8:04 PM on November 12, 2000