Comments on Badtux the Snarky Penguin: Voting blues

Hmm, if it requires the candidates to get up in fr...

2007-08-01T12:10:27.791-07:00

Hmm, if it requires the candidates to get up in front of an audience and actually answer their questions (I hope you didn't *LITERALLY* mean singing, you evil Vulcan!), and the voters call in their votes as the candidates "sing", hmm, I can go for that. Can't be any worse than the current system, which is all about who can get their proxies to tell the most lies about the other candidates...

- Badtux the Elections Penguin

Evil Spock thinks that they should do it like Ame...

2007-08-01T09:49:21.077-07:00

Evil Spock thinks that they should do it like American Idol. Phone them in whilst the candidates are singing.

Yeah, well, you know, "the market" is this magic f...

2007-08-01T00:53:32.907-07:00

Yeah, well, you know, "the market" is this magic fairy dust that, like, if you just sprinkle it on everything, magically the good machines rise to the top and the crappy ones sink to the bottom 'cause, like, everybody is perfectly qualified to evaluate the machines that "the market" produces.

Of course, in real life it don't work like that, in real life machines get bought not on how well they work (because nobody has any idea) but rather by how glitzy they look and how much bakeesh the companies pay the local voter registrars, but in Libertarian La La Land, well...

- Badtux the Market Penguin

In Australia the whole thing was open source and t...

2007-07-31T21:58:30.264-07:00

In Australia the whole thing was open source and they held a hackers competition before anything was certified.

If the only thing the terminals are used for is to print a human/machine readable ballot [including write-ins], you get all of the supposed benefits for the handicapped, and accountability, plus you save on printing costs.

Well, it's just a monkeys game. :-)

2007-07-31T19:07:05.594-07:00

Well, it's just a monkeys game. :-)