What however surprised me is that Electronic Voting machines are not being used in the US Elections....USA is considered as a harbinger of technology; however it feels safe & secure only with manual voting slips; what an anomaly, while the rest of the world including India have embraced EVM's
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mskmoorthy
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Re: http://www.tamilbrahmins.com/general-discussions/10295-vote-3.html#post164313
One of the reasons of not having EVM is the lack of paper trail/record. What this election had was the ballots were scanned and the voters can see that they were "properly" scanned and a paper trail was produced (at least in parts of New York State)
You can see the problem of EVM in this website and in many more websites
Video Allegedly Shows Electronic Voting Machine Changing Vote « CBS DC
Machine turns vote for Obama into one for Romney
One of the reasons of not having EVM is the lack of paper trail/record. What this election had was the ballots were scanned and the voters can see that they were "properly" scanned and a paper trail was produced (at least in parts of New York State)
You can see the problem of EVM in this website and in many more websites
Video Allegedly Shows Electronic Voting Machine Changing Vote « CBS DC
Machine turns vote for Obama into one for Romney
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BostonSankara
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Sri Vgane Ji,
They have been proven far to easy to tamper with and leave no physical evidence of the crime if this is done. The only way this could be done with integrity electronically is with some type of Write Once Read Many computer memory which would cost a whole lot more than paper, essentially do the same thing, and would still leave people questioning how said memory was actually written (ie whether their vote was recorded properly).
Technology is fantastic but not always the best answer!
I have worked in information security (both finance and healthcare) and the thought of electronic machines scares me to death. The votes are still tallied off the paper electronically of course but in the even of a recount the paper leaves another option and a physical record that makes it possible.
They have been proven far to easy to tamper with and leave no physical evidence of the crime if this is done. The only way this could be done with integrity electronically is with some type of Write Once Read Many computer memory which would cost a whole lot more than paper, essentially do the same thing, and would still leave people questioning how said memory was actually written (ie whether their vote was recorded properly).
Technology is fantastic but not always the best answer!
I have worked in information security (both finance and healthcare) and the thought of electronic machines scares me to death. The votes are still tallied off the paper electronically of course but in the even of a recount the paper leaves another option and a physical record that makes it possible.
prasad1
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Peter Kellner: How Obama Won
Barack Obama secured re-election by maintaining the coalition that gave him victory four years ago: black and Hispanic voters, young Americans, women and Americans with post-graduate degrees. These outnumbered Mitt Romney’s supporters among white men, older Americans and people who have not been to college. This emerges clearly from analysis of YouGov’s major survey of 36,000 Americans during the final week of the campaign. This showed Obama leading Romney by 51-49% among Americans who supported one or other of the two men.
The New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Mr. Paul Krugman wrote in an early Tuesday morning blog post that President Obama’s victory is a sign of a changing America that is no longer dominated by “non-urban white people.” (Only 39 percent of the white vote went to Obama this election, according to CNN.com.)
Krugman is not the only one to call attention to this point. The Huffington Post’s Howard Fineman notes Obama’s “victory signaled the irreversible triumph of a new, 21st-century America: multiracial, multi-ethnic, global in outlook and moving beyond centuries of racial, sexual, marital and religious tradition.”
Barack Obama secured re-election by maintaining the coalition that gave him victory four years ago: black and Hispanic voters, young Americans, women and Americans with post-graduate degrees. These outnumbered Mitt Romney’s supporters among white men, older Americans and people who have not been to college. This emerges clearly from analysis of YouGov’s major survey of 36,000 Americans during the final week of the campaign. This showed Obama leading Romney by 51-49% among Americans who supported one or other of the two men.
The New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Mr. Paul Krugman wrote in an early Tuesday morning blog post that President Obama’s victory is a sign of a changing America that is no longer dominated by “non-urban white people.” (Only 39 percent of the white vote went to Obama this election, according to CNN.com.)
Krugman is not the only one to call attention to this point. The Huffington Post’s Howard Fineman notes Obama’s “victory signaled the irreversible triumph of a new, 21st-century America: multiracial, multi-ethnic, global in outlook and moving beyond centuries of racial, sexual, marital and religious tradition.”
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here in USA...local economy had bad shape....unemployment was high....i think in his second term....he will conventrate more
on local economy and unemployment issues....but romney favors outsourcing.....still local IT/ITES is in bad shape....dont expect
any mass H1B visas for india/china....develop local economy is good for india on long term....more competetive with china...more exports
and less corruption is good for india....who knows destiny?......
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