It’s easy to make a mistake when voting with a touchscreen… and it’s even easier to ensure mistakes – by programming the cheat right into the system...
A touchscreen voting machine is just as sensitive; it’s just as important to hit the precisely correct spot to register your choice.
In order to build the ballot for each individual election...some software programmer somewhere must draw the squares on each step of the ballot progression, and then, having drawn the squares that the voter sees, he programs the area that gets counted when touched – by designing a targeted section to send the signal to be recorded as a vote.
And guess what? That targeted touchscreen section may or may not perfectly match the square that you see before you.
Let’s think about how this could go wrong...
In order to build the ballot for each individual election...some software programmer somewhere must draw the squares on each step of the ballot progression, and then, having drawn the squares that the voter sees, he programs the area that gets counted when touched – by designing a targeted section to send the signal to be recorded as a vote.
And guess what? That targeted touchscreen section may or may not perfectly match the square that you see before you.
Let’s think about how this could go wrong...
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