Nov 30
Voting Machines: Who You Trust
The last Patrick’s Place Poll asked how much you trust voting machines. Just more than a quarter gave electronic voting their blessing: 27% feel that they can trust them “a lot.”
Thirty-six percent said that they trust them “somewhat,” but remain unsure that errors couldn’t happen, but they are willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Another thirty-six percent say that they don’t trust them much, wondering how easy it would be for hackers to alter the results.
The question is, what would you prefer? Do we go back to paper ballots with ball-point pens so people can check on paper what they want and then have humans count manually? Is that better? Is that more efficient? And would you be satisfied waiting for days to get the results of every single race?
Meanwhile, the new poll is asking about the “N-word” in light of Michael Richards’ profane rant and subsequent apology to the black community, and that community’s leaders urging artists and the media to stop all use of the word: good idea or bad idea?
