an opportunity in today's KC star

[Don Erickson]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, David Nicol wrote:

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> I really
> don't see why state-of-the-art hardware would be needed to run a touch-screen
> voting machine, or even what the advantage of touch-screen over keyboard
> might be.

It's simple, really.  If sombody were to trojan a keylogger onto the 
machine, then they might be able to tell how someone voted, or even, 
heaven forbid, total up the actual votes.  I think that the threat to our 
American Electoral System is pretty obvious in such a worst-case scenario.

> The politics at KCLUG are clearly a mixed bag, so we otta be totally immune from
> accusations of partisanship :)

What, you mean some KCLUG members' political views are totally incorrect, 
clearly wrongheaded and/or hopelessly naive?  Preposterous.

Regards,

-Don, Far Centrist