Posted on 02/28/2005 6:03:34 PM PST by demoeater
DailyKos is reporting that a group of senators and representatives including Hillary Clinton, John Kerrry, and Tubbs Jones, have proposed an 'open-source' voting bill. This bill (The Count Every Vote Act of 2005) corrects many of the problems in the last election. Notably, it requires paper receipts, and that the source and object code of all electronic voting machines to be open and readable by the public. " Commentary on the bill available at the Miami Herald.
Of course, the wackos think that Bush stole the election through Diebold...
Does this mean the proposed "felon" source string and the illegal immigrant voter protection string will be able to be viewed as well?
-PJ
If the dems want to spend Bush's second term as they did the first--pissing and moaning about how they weren't REALLY defeated--they can go right ahead. This is where we see Hillary start to get tangled in her dance steps as she tries to placate the lefty base without getting too mixed up with the Dean wing of the party apparatus.
And of course another government regulatory agency will be born, in need of funding, blah blah blah.
That makes it much easier for union thugs to enforce voting for the "correct" candidates. Lets say that 100 feet away from the polls, union thugs "ask" people leaving the polls to show them their receipts.
Open source for voting machines has got to be one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard. If you want to GUARANTEE that software hackers (hired by Democrooks or whoever) will fully understand how to attack or compromise a voting machine, make sure they have full access to the source code to expose exactly how they work. Idiotic.
Did they manage to find room to squeeze that one in?
"to be open and readable by the public" - like MDCCLXXVI, right?
Hillary and company are going to spend the next four years farting around with measures and attempted bill writing that under-radar undermine the voting process. She is nothing but a self-serving, opportunistic, snake oil selling skank who will stop at NOTHING to get into position of ultimate power. I loathe her.
Sure, let every hacker get hold of the source code and object code (to the person who asked "who reads object code?" the answer is hackers. Don't discount the fact that the hackers could be insiders.
Paper receipts that are allowed to leave the building have two major problems. First, they can be used by groups to audit your vote and reward or punish the voter accordingly. Look for the RATs to decide to get better bang for the buck with their "walking around" money.
Second, because there is no legitimate chain of custody, imagine a candidate showing up with boxes of receipts that contradicts the certified vote? Chaos galore! If they insist on computer voting, then the receipts should be placed in a ballot box and be treated just like any other form of ballot. Those puppies will be deucedly hard to count and after the first recount, the SOE will demand a switch to mark-sense (fill in the oval) ballots.
Then explain the relative lack of exploits for Apache or SE-Linux.
Because an Apache hack can't win you the Presidency.
The problem with the electronic voting machines, this time around at least, is that the Democrats had no way to arrange for recounts.
Without recounts, they have no means of delaying the final results and no means of cheating by spoiling the ballots after election day.
Who can doubt that many or most the the Florida chad anomolies were caused by the Democrat poll operators themselves, poking rods through stacks of pro-Bush ballots so as to spoil them? Or just consider the recent recounts in Florida State.
Think of the trouble they could make if they forced recounts in EVERY state.
But it could make you 100,000 if not millions of dollars.
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