[E-voting] Ohio to use paper ballots !!

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Tue Jan 18 15:12:42 GMT 2005


Ohio's Secretary of State Ken Blackwell announced on Jan, 12th a
directive by which all 88 Ohio counties must adopt a voting system of
paper ballots, marked by hand and read by optical-scanning devices
(PCOS). 

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What do you think about Mr. Blackwell's directive?
I'm so happy since it confirms all my points against e-vote I wrote in 

          http//www.electronic-vote.org 

 From a "usability" point of view Paper Elections may be as good as
electronic elections, infact, ballot papers can also be voted using
offline devices which actually print them following the directions
given by each elector. Such offline devices, located in the polling
stations, can use video or audio to help electors with sigth or
language problems. Each elector verifies that his printed ballot paper
is what he wants and then he places it into the traditional ballot
box.
Obvoiusly such devices must be offline computer (not connected to any
other computer nor network) because this is the only way we can be
sure their results are not fraudulently remote-controlled nor monitored. 

Thus all the computer programs improving vote accessability can be
used just the same. The only difference is that the casted votes are to be
printed on paper instead of being transmitted to some other electronic
equipment, but it doesn't change anything of the action of voting. 

I'm I wrong? 

Ciao from Italy,
Emanuele Lombardi
http://www.electronic-vote.org 





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