Avi Rubin is a knowledgeable guy, and I think his concerns about electronic
voting are dead on.  We all know how insecure Windows is, and these
machines are Windows-based.  Linux or OS/2 or Mac would be better, but,
with voting machines as a target, hackers might find a way to get through
those OSes.

Why not have paper ballots that are read electronically (like the way the
SAT is checked?)  Fill in the circle of your choice with a pencil.  That
way, if an election result seems fishy, the ballots can be checked
manually, or with different computers.  I'd feel much more confident with a
system like this.  

I've been getting absentee ballots the last few elections, and will
continue to do so.  At least I know what I entered that way.  On a
computerized voting machine, I could select Candidate X, and a hacker could
have gotten in and changed the programming to record votes for X as votes
for Y, and I'd have no way of knowing (yes, the same could happen with the
reading of the absentee ballot by computer, but the hard copy is there if a
check is done.)


*adh*

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