Flutterby™! : Aaron's Georgia Voting Rant

On the ALE List, Aaron is a well respected zealot. Especially about electronic voting systems. It's a long rant, well summarized in one quote:

"In essence, the judges of the Georgia Supreme court have now ruled that no Georgia citizen can challenge the legality and constitutionality of a voting system that produces no evidence and provides no accountability because the voting system produces no evidence and provides no accountability which would show just cause for a legal challenge."

More issues on VoteGA.org, many other states have similiar issues.

It's a real problem if we are to maintain the perception that we are a representative democracy. I can think of low-tech (back to paper ballots), extra step ("vote" again with an outside auditing agency[do you remember who you voted for dog catcher?]), and high tech (digital keys) solutions with printed receipts (hmm,. paper again, eh?). But none really work better than counting chad laden paper ballots or electronically scanned paper ballots.