Comment Re:Voting machines (Score 2, Interesting) 237
So instead of just talking about it, do something slashdot crowd! p.s. there are a lot of your.
I suggest opening a thread for the developtment of a open source system.
Build it and they will come. Because that is what 'they' do. Not only that, but for big business to compete they will have to match this new "open source" feature that is all the rage. Plus without all the fat, I bet you could make it cheap.
But technically you should want to leave the electrical components out completely. A analog device would be idea.
Think something physical; take for example ball bearings or perhaps balls of say, 3in or so. You walk into the booth, and insert the key the operator handed you. When you turn the key, it releases x number of balls. These are fitted into sockets next to pictures and names of candidates. The ball is still movable from place to place at this point, only after the lever is pulled are the balls dropped. The transport tunnel from this point to the point of collection is transparent.
So how is that for transparent voting technology! As the balls drop it will hit a piece of paper that was advanced once when the key was turned. The paper will have a consistance burn hole as a result. The voter can check the pattern by looking through a window. They're vote should be recorded as a burn next to they're candidate. If there is a mistake then the voter can select reset, the machine releases a full set of balls over this vote record so all candidates are marked(hence the vote is cancel by way of logic, I only gave you 8 but you voted for more than 8 therefore this vote is void).
But if there is no problem with this tally then removing the key allows the balls to fall into they're respective collection bins. When the bins are full they are weighed and the click timer each bin contains is recorded along with this weight. The volume to vote count ratio should be consistent if instead of a random open void for a container, a series of cylinders were used instead.
This would insure that the count per container ratio remains the same. Since both are recorded and we have a paper trial we should have a means to a clean election.
The balls will have to be handled with a rag if complete privacy is demanded, or just make the balls spin while falling past a cloth rag. Balls are reused, the data is what is counted.
The paper strip is the ONLY official count and only count trusted. The mass to vote count ratio is consided just a security check and is not considered legal since no physical data is collected, it is based on human recording thus deamed unfit.
I suggest opening a thread for the developtment of a open source system.
Build it and they will come. Because that is what 'they' do. Not only that, but for big business to compete they will have to match this new "open source" feature that is all the rage. Plus without all the fat, I bet you could make it cheap.
But technically you should want to leave the electrical components out completely. A analog device would be idea.
Think something physical; take for example ball bearings or perhaps balls of say, 3in or so. You walk into the booth, and insert the key the operator handed you. When you turn the key, it releases x number of balls. These are fitted into sockets next to pictures and names of candidates. The ball is still movable from place to place at this point, only after the lever is pulled are the balls dropped. The transport tunnel from this point to the point of collection is transparent.
So how is that for transparent voting technology! As the balls drop it will hit a piece of paper that was advanced once when the key was turned. The paper will have a consistance burn hole as a result. The voter can check the pattern by looking through a window. They're vote should be recorded as a burn next to they're candidate. If there is a mistake then the voter can select reset, the machine releases a full set of balls over this vote record so all candidates are marked(hence the vote is cancel by way of logic, I only gave you 8 but you voted for more than 8 therefore this vote is void).
But if there is no problem with this tally then removing the key allows the balls to fall into they're respective collection bins. When the bins are full they are weighed and the click timer each bin contains is recorded along with this weight. The volume to vote count ratio should be consistent if instead of a random open void for a container, a series of cylinders were used instead.
This would insure that the count per container ratio remains the same. Since both are recorded and we have a paper trial we should have a means to a clean election.
The balls will have to be handled with a rag if complete privacy is demanded, or just make the balls spin while falling past a cloth rag. Balls are reused, the data is what is counted.
The paper strip is the ONLY official count and only count trusted. The mass to vote count ratio is consided just a security check and is not considered legal since no physical data is collected, it is based on human recording thus deamed unfit.
