Electronic Voting

After watching Hacking Democracy, I was surprised to find out that electronic voting could be rigged.  Personally I always wondered about how they count the votes.  Now that I know some of the machines could be rigged, I understand why their our concerns about those machines espcially the ones made by Diebold.

The people of America are concerned about the seurity of the Diebold machines.  The Diebold company said that there machines were very secure and that nobody could rig the machines or tamper with the ballots.  After the machines were proved not secure, people became concerned with their ballots.  It was discovered that the number of votes could be changed by altering the memory card.  All these break downs in the security of the machine made all the people to not trust diebold machines.

If I was in charge of counting the votes I would just do it the old way and have actual people count the votes.  The process would take longer but technology nowadays cannot be trusted.  However, to make sure the people counting the votes do not alter the votes I would have two different groups count the votes.  One group would be mostly republicans and the other would be democrats.  Then you can compare the results and if they match up then you know the results are true.  If the results are different then you can get a recount.