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Oh yes, I don't discourage it.

I just think that you can't be satisfy with it. Open source voting machine are still an abomination for the democratic process.



remind me again how the open-source part makes anything worse than a standard voting machine?


I think it's an electronic voting machine in general. There must be a paper ballot trail. The absolute best setup for voting is the scan-tron style paper ballot. Immediate confirmation, quick and continuous vote tallies, errors are very rare and it includes a paper trail.


It does not. Read the entire thread before being offended.




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