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jonlumb

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Re: Canvassing?


	Nick wrote: Isn't it about time that it was all done electronically?

Did you ever see the two elections that GWB won in the USA? There was whole sordid mess around electronic voting machines there.

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	EddArmitage wrote: But how do you identify who's on the electoral roll and eligible to vote?

It's stored somewhere at the moment, so that can be incorporated.


	Quote: And who's already voted and thus can't anymore?

I thought I already answered that in my post???

Anyway, once a vote has been registered you can store the fact that they have voted. There's no reason to store who they voted for though, so I don't see a privacy issue.


	Quote: Did you ever see the two elections that GWB won in the USA? There was whole sordid mess around electronic voting machines there.

Yeah I remember that. Just because they made a mess of it can't be done though. It seems pretty simple to me, not sure how they could make such a bad effort.

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Re: Canvassing?

IIRC electronic voting was a mess in Scotland too.

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jonlumb

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Re: Canvassing?

Nick wrote:


	Quote: Did you ever see the two elections that GWB won in the USA? There was whole sordid mess around electronic voting machines there.

Yeah I remember that. Just because they made a mess of it can't be done though. It seems pretty simple to me, not sure how they could make such a bad effort.

It wasn't so much incompetence as bare faced cheating. If memory serves, someone like Dick Cheney was on the Board at Diebold at the time.

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	Nick wrote: Of course, people would have to log-in to vote, and it would have to be recorded that a vote has been made from that account, but who has voted for which candidate wouldn't need to be stored, only a total number of votes for each candidate.

It wouldn't need to be, but it probably would get tied up somehow...

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