The leture disgreed with the article's opinions. It's not a better solution to use the computerized voting systems.
Firstly, it might be hard for the voters who don't use the computer so often, or the users who is fear of the technology, even some of voters can not aford a computer. Touch screen may also be hard to use for people who is not familiar with computers. Secondly, computer is programmed by human beings, which means it can also have errors. Instead of human being's counting error, which only results one or two counting error in number, an errror in the program code could cause tramendous error in number. In case of the computer crash or disaster, it may lost all the voting information. We can not even to make a re-count. Lastly, our daily banking or other highly sensitive infomation system, is actually improved as time goes by. They were also problematic at the beginning. As we use them so often, we have more chances to find problems, and furturemore, to fix and improve them. However, for the voting system, we only use them every 2 years nationally and some other rare events. We just don't use it often enough to find a bug or test it thoroughly.
The
leture
disgreed
with the article's opinions. It's not a better solution to
use
the computerized voting systems.
Firstly
, it might be
hard
for the voters who don't
use
the computer
so
often
, or the users who
is
fear of the technology, even
some of voters
can not
aford
a computer. Touch screen may
also
be
hard
to
use
for
people
who
is
not familiar with computers.
Secondly
, computer
is programmed
by human beings, which means it can
also
have
errors
.
Instead
of human being's counting
error
, which
only
results one or two counting
error
in number, an
errror
in the program code could cause
tramendous
error
in number. In case of the computer crash or disaster, it may
lost
all the voting information. We can not even to
make
a re-count.
Lastly
, our daily banking or other
highly
sensitive
infomation
system, is actually
improved
as time goes by. They were
also
problematic at the beginning. As we
use
them
so
often
, we have more chances to find problems, and
furturemore
, to
fix
and
improve
them.
However
, for the voting system, we
only
use
them every 2 years
nationally
and
some
other rare
events
. We
just
don't
use
it
often
enough
to find a bug or
test
it
thoroughly
.