[Tfug] SQL database question

[Bexley Hall]

--- John Mc <jmcneill2 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 1) "Hanging chads"
> 
> 2) Very poorly designed, 1950s type paper ballots
> for electronic scanning.

Surely this can't be a *real* issue.  How long
does it take to draw up a new ballot?  I note the
ballots used here *seem* to be designed with lots
of margin for error (i.e., not like filling in
those tiny frigging bubbles on SAT's, etc.)
 
> 3) People that can't understand or make up their
> minds and choose both candidates instead of one.

(sigh)  It's hard to protect against idiots.
What about folks who don't vote for *any*?
Do you force them to make a choice?  How do
you know they have "missed" the question and
not deliberately *skipped* it?

> 4) No national standard and as many different,
> poorly designed and 
> implemented state standards as there are states.

Yup.

> Think about it. It has 
> been over 7 years since the problem was brought to
> national attention 
> and still we have no national solution. Its almost
> like the powers that 
> be really don't want a solution, don't you think? Of

Of course.

> all the money that 
> has already been spent, and wasted, on MS based
> proprietary solutions. 
> Does anyone know the current progress on the FOSS
> solution for 
> electronic voting?



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