Well, personnaly i don t take one of each, i just don’t care.

Also as per the electronic voting machines as i know it s causing a lot of issues, Diebold, the compagny making most of the voting machines in the US, is also producing ATMs, and as i know their ATMs dont have any security issue, but the voting machines do. It takes something like one minute to an aged personne with no special tools to replace the memory card holding the result without hurting the “scellé”. Some other ones are wifi enabled for no reasons and have a remote controll app installed on them, if the app has a security issue (i think it was PCanywhere). Even more scarry, you dont even need to hack all the machines, results are concentrated in one before being sent to a more central one, etc… if you would happen to infect the good one with an app which would change the result, then you could change the results for a bunch of offices at the same time.

As per the Diebold machines, i see no reason they could do secure atm and not secure voting machines, banking stuff is a hell more complicated and yet they can’t do the simple stuff, well only reason i see is that peoples votes are not _that_ important so that you’d want to invest in ways to make them securely, yet i think i’d be paranoiac to think that was made on purpose so that results could be hacked later if not pleasing some peoples so i’ll just reject this.

Hence i think it s not yet too retarded to use paper unless we found some good working secure way of doing this electronically.

(lot of articles on this are on the net, personnally i did read the ones linked from slashdot)

I’m also excited by the election (and quite fed up with all the verbal violence that we saw these last months). Here in Washington, we’re voting today, that’s great !