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Texas has an “early voting” system to make voting easy for those for whom appearing at a polling place on the first Tues after the first Mon in November is inconvenient.
It’s a nice thought and I applaud the forward-thinking of the Texas legislature for recognizing that not everyone can get out there on the same day to exercise their democratic right and responsibility to participate in the republican process. Too bad Diebold doesn’t recognize it’s responsibility to maintain the transparency of the voting process.
I like the idea of being able to vote by simply touching an un-ambiguous portion of a screen. The lack of any form of auditable paper trail is a deal breaker for me. I don’t really care that it’s not on paper. I do care that the code can’t be reviewed and there is apparently NO log of the process beyond, supposedly, the actual vote itself.
The bad news is Collin County uses Diebold machines for early voting. The good news is they don’t have enough of them for every polling station, so they don’t use them on election day.
I’ll reserve my vote for election day, thankyouverymuch.