Alex Hopmann’s Blog

The NY Times has an editorial about the Minnesota recount, the gist of which is that whichever way it turns out, Minnesota does a pretty good job running elections. All the ballots are on paper, with none of those punch-card chad or electronic black-box voting machine nonsense.

I’m hoping election officials across the country take the right message from this. Even when there are electronic voting machines (we have some locally, mostly as a help for disabled voters), they should print out the results onto a paper ballot that the voter can verify before handing it in. Its just not that hard, and measures like this can help ensure future elections are fair too.

Now that I have upgraded I can use the iPhone app to publish to my blog. Let’s see how it works.

I just upgraded the software for this blog. Frankly I was a bit terrified that it was going to destroy something in a big way, but so far it looks fine. This is pretty much a test post, so we will see how it goes.