Voting Technology Quotes
Florida’s vote counting system was extremely primitive and highly subjective, and no one could really ever tell whether Al Gore or George W. Bush ever won the state whose electoral votes determined the election of 2000. The Supreme Court finally decided that Bush would be president, but no one wanted such a situation to ever happen again. Blackwell had better technology in Ohio in the next election but Ohio various techniques were used to keep some Blacks from voting.
Without a paper trail, there is no way to audit an election to prove that there ahs not been any tamering with the vote counting, the machines that do the counting or the processes of aggregating the results of all the machines in a state ort other election district. Without a hard copy paper trail, there is no way to be certain that some of the voting or aggregating machines had not been hacked and manipualted.
The voting problems we have had are managerially and technology solvable but politically each solution is perceived as favoring one of the political parties in the particular jurisdiction and therefore there is resistance to the change.
