[PAA-Discuss] re voting security

[Bill Crosier]

At 11:24 PM 10/31/2006, donald cook wrote:
>And you won't be able to write in Charles Waterbury for Chief 
>Justice of the Texas Supreme Court!  (A race with no Dems.)  At 
>least I don't think you can. -- Don
>
I'm not sure what you mean, but yes, you can write in Charles 
Waterbury when you vote, regardless of whether you use an electronic 
voting machine or not.  Ask the election judge if you aren't sure how to do it.

Of course, whether and how the votes are counted is still up to the 
proprietary Hart Intercivic software.

And to answer Lee's question, I don't think miscounting the votes is 
any easier or harder whether you vote straight party or individually 
select each candidate, although that's possible.  The software that 
does the counting is known only to Hart Intercivic 
employees.  Everyone else is supposed to just trust them...

Bill


>From: "Lee Loe" <leeloe at igc.org>
>To: "'PAA Discuss List'" <discuss at paa-tx.org>,"'code pink 
>listserve'" 
><codepinkhouston at lists.riseup.net>,<Pokeyink at aol.com>,"'donald 
>cook'" <zenblews at hotmail.com>,<friends_of_kpft at yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: re voting security
>Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:25:05 -0600
>
>I have been thinking that maybe voting for each person is best, no voting
>straight democrat as that is easier to hack? Lee Loe