E-Voting

The other day I had the occation to see the voting machines here in the county stashed away awaiting the next election. The first thought that came to mind was a scene from the Flintstones where you shove the card through a hole in the wall and a dinosour of some sort bites the card and registers your vote. In our digital world those things look like somekind of smithsonian display, you know, here is the way they used to vote sort of thing. Then I saw on TV that Georgia will be using electronic voting this year statewide. The people that engineered alot of banking technology Diebolt are providing the equipment. I guess there is quite a bit of protest over the system because it is unable to create a paper record which is invaluable in case a recount is necessary. I guess it just strikes me as strange given all the gadgets out there no one has come up with a system every precinct in the country needs, with all the recent election problems and the threat of fraudulent ballots it seems like someone would have grabbed the opportunity and the money and been gone by now. Of course that would be assuming our government moves at the speed of buisness. Just a few thoughts from a reclusive deer chasing gardener.