Re: Electronic voting

From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Mon May 19 2003 - 22:38:14 MDT

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    --- Karen Rand Smigrodzki <karen@smigrodzki.org>
    wrote:
    > Harvey, are you saying that you live in an area
    > where they check your ID
    > to vote? You mean at the voting booth? I, having
    > voted in MA, and PA and
    > IN, and various regions in those states, have been
    > each time disturbed by
    > the fact that I have never ever been asked for any
    > ID. All that has ever
    > been done is to ask my name, and they check it off
    > on a list of registered
    > voters. It scares me, because anyone could say they
    > were me and vote.
    > Hasn't happened, but it could.

    CA, or at least the part of it I reside in, requires
    signature - signed in front of the poll workers - and
    knowledge of address. Not official ID, but still a
    step beyond just claiming to be X.



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