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When I went to the poll on Thursday (God bless early voting...) I think I only handed the worker my sample ballot, though I may have actually shown my driver's license, no big deal was made of it (hence my not remembering which) and I just signed my name and voted.
To be clear, I have absolutely nothing against e-voting machines. My problem is that there is NO transparency to them since the companies that make them b*tch, moan, and whine about anyone looking over their shoulders. "Proprietary code" or somesuch bs. It's been said over and over that this system needs to follow the Nevada model of oversight on gambling machines. If they did that, we wouldn't be having all these problems and people could be confident in both the integrity of the election as well as their ability to reliably vote on the machines in the first place. States' rights advocates can f*ck off on this matter: There needs to be a universal system setup nationwide. No more of this half-assed, uncoordinated chaos that varies in sh*tacularness from state to state. The circus that is our election system needs to leave town.
To be clear, I have absolutely nothing against e-voting machines. My problem is that there is NO transparency to them since the companies that make them b*tch, moan, and whine about anyone looking over their shoulders. "Proprietary code" or somesuch bs. It's been said over and over that this system needs to follow the Nevada model of oversight on gambling machines. If they did that, we wouldn't be having all these problems and people could be confident in both the integrity of the election as well as their ability to reliably vote on the machines in the first place. States' rights advocates can f*ck off on this matter: There needs to be a universal system setup nationwide. No more of this half-assed, uncoordinated chaos that varies in sh*tacularness from state to state. The circus that is our election system needs to leave town.
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