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Voting machine integrity through transparencyVoting machine integrity through transparencyPosted Mar 27, 2008 20:51 UTC (Thu) by ortalo (subscriber, #4654)In reply to: Voting machine integrity through transparency by iabervon Parent article: Voting machine integrity through transparency
Maybe a machine can help a human to cast a correct ballot, but I doubt this would have a significant influence on the overall vote validity. (If a majority of voters spoil their ballots, I guess the democratic problem is not only a technical one!) Concerning people with disabilities, I really have similar doubts. I witnessed such situations myself as my grand father was blind. As a child I had several opportunities to see him participate in an election and, well, his pragmatic solution was obvious: he was the one who chosed who was going to help him cast his ballot. Furthermore, being technically curious himself, I am pretty sure he would not have trusted the machine more than the person he designated. All in all, IMHO, such an example probably reduces to a conventional delegation issue, not specifically related to disabilities.
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