In this era of technology, it seems we are behind; the country could have one standard voting method.
Americans moving from one side of the country to the other should know, be educated in, and vote with one universal way.
Additionally, a closed networked system with both government and citizens seems possible and cheaper than 50 different standards.
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The EVM system in India sounds much better than Diebold. Using it here would probably allay fears of fraud.
http://techaos.blogspot.com/2004/05/indian-evm-compared-with-diebold.html
It depends on the system. Paper ballots for everyone makes sense to me, asking the country to trust a computer system doesn't. Same-day and automatic registration makes sense to me, barriers to voting don't. A system that accommodates several languages makes sense to me, an English-only system doesn't.
You haven't given us enough information.
charliebernstein,
Information in more then one language is good, I think educating in many languages leads to group-segregation were still young on acceptance of all.
"You haven't given us enough information."
That's where you come in, I don't have all the answers...
thurst1985,
I would be scared not to have our own American made voting/security/system. its our voting system not others, it's not about fear, it's about responsibility.
diebold should die boldly.
and absentee voting for elderly poor disabled working makes more able to vote.
we need more methods to make the system accessible and usable by all not less.
More methods of getting people to vote can be applied, I'm talking about one standard ballot.
I would really like to see all these citizen empowerment ideas consoldiated. This web site needs a complete make-over.
It's only open until the 28th, This is what we have. so point as many as you can to this topic!
This is my suggestion of how we might go about moving to secure, electronic voting: http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/3554-4049