Monday, October 30, 2006

Restore Voter Confidence Through Exit Polls

This is an excellent article and solution to voting fraud concerns of every stripe. We don't have time to institute it now, but we do on the local level by 2008.

Why didn't we think of this sooner? Probably because it would be just too darn easy!!
A way to restore confidence: South Florida Sun-Sentinel: "Widespread concern over recent reports from Princeton University on Diebold machine susceptibility to tampering, and from New York University on e-voting more generally, confirm what computer scientists have long known and contended: There is little reason for confidence in election results obtained from electronic voting machines.

Yet voters in the United States are denied the one powerful technique that might restore confidence in election results -- an independent exit poll."
Hat-tip: Mark-Crispin Miller