Electronic Voting
Alex Tabarrok makes an interesting analogy with gas pumps over at Marginal Revolution. I’ve been mildy opposed to electronic voting machines, but this has gotten me thinking about the issue again. I think it’s a relatively apt comparison, but at the gas station there typically isn’t a worry of the employees rigging the machinery to charge customers the wrong amount.. Poll-watchers already have a pretty tough time in certain areas making sure that nothing nefarious happens on election day, a less transparent method of voting makes that even more difficult. A lack of record, in this case, is probably a very real concern when a certain amount of election fraud is known to happen. Plus, it’s tough to mail a voting machine to folks at home, and vote-by-mail is one of the few things Oregon does right.
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