Polling Poll

[lady_branwyn]

I didn't realize how primitive the polling technology was in my county until my sister from Maryland broke out laughing when I told her that we still used the little stylus thingie. Since then we've taken a step backward, going to a paper form with ovals to fill in.

[Poll #1640022]

Comments

[lady-branwyn.livejournal.com]

The range of practices is interesting. I admit to feeling a little nervous about entirely electronic systems where there is no paper trail.

[lilan14.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean, especially after the 2004 mess. I later saw quite an interesting documentary about the electronic safety and the protection of data once it was entered into the server. It sounded like the system was reliable...unless someone set up a transit server that intercepted information and altered it before sending it to the destination server.

Really, fancy security seems to always lead to new fancy ways of breaking it. (I don't know if it scares or reassures me, though! I really don't want machines around that are smarter than people, LOL.)