>>>>>Contrast that with voting machines, which are proprietary and ridiculously vulnerable to near-trivial hacks.
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>>>>>Your money is arguably a lot safer in a video slot on an Indian reservation, than your vote is in some voting machines.
>>>>
>>>>You know the sentences which may follow when you say in public that you write your apps in VFP. Now imagine this - Diebold's app is written in Access.
>>>
>>>http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0307/S00065.htm
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>>http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~seclab/projects/voting/
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>We have been voting electronically for over 15 years now and I'm just living in a small village. There have been flaws detected and corrected over time and some districts had to revert to paper voting temporarely. But on the whole, voting is done electronically.
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>I wonder, why the "most sophisticated country in the world" still isn't using them on the massive scale.

Partly inertia. Voting machines are expensive, so no one wants to replace existing machinery until they have too. FWIW, I've been voting on electronic machines for more than a decade, as well.

Tamar