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Comments on: More Display Noise https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/10/30/more-display-noise/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:34:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/10/30/more-display-noise/comment-page-1/#comment-18322 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:34:52 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/10/30/more-display-noise/#comment-18322 Not using a touchscreen makes eSlate more reliable and less error prone than the Diebold equipment. The local ATMs I use have buttons along the side of the screen and a numeric keypad for entering amounts. It’s only in stores that you encounter the touchscreens, and as Anya noted on the earlier thread the fail with regularity.

]]> By: Steve Bates https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/10/30/more-display-noise/comment-page-1/#comment-18320 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:17:48 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/10/30/more-display-noise/#comment-18320 When I voted early last week, I noted with amusement (or worse) that every eSlate machine had an improvised sign above it: “The eSlate is NOT a touchscreen device.” An eSlate terminal has a plastic “dial” or finger-wheel for making selections, which I suppose is no bad thing, or would be if I trusted any electronic voting system to follow through after the voter walks away.

Touchscreen devices have known characteristics; there’s no reason the problem in Florida couldn’t have been anticipated. But either it wasn’t anticipated, or it was anticipated but deliberately ignored. Machines are untrustworthy; people, even more so.

Forgive my cynicism. Wherever my liberal nature comes from, it isn’t my faith in humankind.

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