Comments on: Missouri doesn’t allow privacy in voting, apparently

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:03:39 +0000

I live in Missouri in an area where privacy is CRITICAL…to safety, security, well being, etc. I was appalled when i went to vote and frankly, I’m afraid to go to the polls in November.

By: Pam

Pam — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:06:53 +0000

I live in St. Louis and had a similar experience as far as the booth set up. I did not pursue it as you have though. After reading this blog I did a little checking around and found the following:

“The Federal Election Commission has issued a set of Voting System Standards (VSS)14 that serve as a model of functional requirements that elections systems must meet before they can be certified for use in an election. The VSS state explicitly:

To facilitate casting a ballot, all systems shall:

[…] Protect the secrecy of the vote such that the system cannot reveal any information about how a particular voter voted, except as otherwise required by individual State law;15

and:

All systems shall provide voting booths [that shall] provide privacy for the voter, and be designed in such a way as to prevent observation of the ballot by any person other than the voter;16″

The source is located here: infolab.stanford.edu/pub/keller/2005/privacy-electronic-voting-chapter.pdf

By: Gina

Gina — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:16:56 +0000

Hi Trisha, I found your site through BlogHer. I don't know what else to do besides what you did, but I admire your pursuing the issue. I would be upset, too. Even if your voice gets lost in the bureaucracy, together with other voices it may be heard. Good Luck! Ginas last blog post: How technology affects language