23rd
December
2008
Minnesota Recount
posted in Technology |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.