Do you trust electronic voting machines?

Question

I voted yesterday on an electronic voting machine. I have to say that it just did not feel as secure as putting a paper ballot in a box.

Do you trust E-Voting machines?

Answer 1

The potential for one person to gain access and possibly tamper with results is so much greater with the E-voting process.
My understanding of the paper ballot system is that; if someone wanted to change results of paper ballots, they'd have to physically be at the location where paper ballots are counted.
With E-voting, it's a possibility someone could change the results of multiple voting locations, with or without physically being there.

Some things Are worth the paper they're printed on.

Thanks.

Answer 2

Yes of course! It is secure, fast and practical. Brazil has the better electronic voting machine that they are using since 1996, although Brazil has a corrupt government, the e-voting machines works very well without doubt.
Brazil
Electronic voting in Brazil was introduced in 1996 (when the first tests were carried in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Since 2000, all Brazilian elections have been fully electronic. By the 2000 and 2002 elections more than 400 thousand electronic voting machines were used nationwide in Brazil and the results were tallied electronically within minutes after the polls closed.

Answer 3

I totally trust most electronic machines that are out there, with the exception of a few. Most DRE machines have 3 memory paths, including a verifiable paper trail and while voting irregularities sometimes do occur, it is rare and not nearly as wide spread as most people think.

Answer 4

The machines are okay as far as they go. It's the people who program them, and hack them, that I don't trust including, but not limited to, political partisans. I think highly of the optical scanner machines: you darken circles on a paper form, then feed the paper into a scanner. Provides a verifiable paper trail for recount purposes.

Answer 5

the factor of the paper path is to grant a written receipt to people, so as that if a substantial discrepency got here up the individuals who cared could desire to offer those receipts to examine that the digital count selection became precise. Absent the paper path, there isn't any way (different than blind faith) to tell notwithstanding if the outcomes spit out by the gadget quite mirror the thoughts made by the persons. i do no longer think of there is a lot value in the version you recommend, notwithstanding, the place the gadget in simple terms spits out the revealed card to rely later. except that card is secondary to the receipt, and used basically as a speedy-verify for statistical sampling.

Answer 6

Yeah, I really don't. I reckon that's how bush got elected in the first place when supposedly kerry won. Daddy pulled some strings or something went down.
Then again they could mess with the paper ballots too except I figure its easier to electronically.

Answer 7

I don't trust it unless it prints out my votes and I can then insert those votes into a box in case something happens.

Answer 8

No, I do not trust them. I voted absentee ballot.

Answer 9

No not really but then again nothing is safe when it come to elections. Hanging chads, recounts, ect.......... Anymore the election is a pacifier to the people. Do away with the electoral college and leave it completely up to the people.

Answer 10

E-voting is secured but must be monitored in order not to be tampered with by cheaters.