"Like Elections, E-voting Must Be Open"

Computerworld ^ | 8 January 2007 | Ben Rothke

[lifelong_republican]

"...The problem is that nearly every commercial e-voting system deployed to date has been rushed to market without the level of security required for such important tools. Going digital for digital’s sake without ensuring that proper precautions have been taken is shortsighted and, when it comes to e-voting, a significant threat to democracy..."

[lifelong_republican]

There is no excuse for the waste of taxpayer resources or the disenfranchisement of voters represented by the severely flawed equipment being forced on the public by those intent on manipulation of elections.

[MamaB]

I really think you may be posting on the wrong site. I could be wrong, though. It has happened a few times in the past.

[lifelong_republican]

Republicans were disenfranchised in the last election by the corrupt Democrats of the Rendell mob in Pennsylvania. Are you saying that you don't believe Republicans should be able to vote as they prefer?

[MamaB]

That has been happening in every election by the dems. It is all types of voting.

[lifelong_republican]

You are right that all types of voting have been abused, but with the electronics it is quick and easy to manipulate elections with very little risk of being caught.

[Doc91678]

The Progressive Marxist Left whiners have been touting this mantra for a long time. However, it is they who are the thieves of the votes. They use doble-dippers, dead people and felons to swell their votes. When they lose they shout fix because they are the people who are trying to fix the vote in their favor. They ponder on why they lost so the other side must have fixed the vote. They feel it impossible for that many to vote against them.

[L98Fiero]

"Republicans were disenfranchised in the last election by the corrupt Democrats of the Rendell mob in Pennsylvania."

What did that have to do with electronic voting?

[lifelong_republican]

The corrupt Democrats of the Rendell mob in Pennsylvania are intent on robbing Republicans of real ballots.

Those who were trying to vote for Senator Rick Santorum even saw their votes being switched on the faulty electronic systems.

Support for the electronics is support for election subversion by the corrupt Democrats, no less.

[RedStateRocker]

An old Marxist-Leninist tactic; accuse the other side of what you are doing. The left knows vote chicanery well, and the best way to take the heat off dead folks voting for Democratic candidates is to scream about voting machine fraud.
That said, I would like some pretty damn strict scrutiny of these machines; I know how creative and clever a true hacker (a word which means someone who is clever at accessing and modifying a machine or code; the ignorant use it when they mean 'cracker' which is a criminal who steals and trashes things)can be and I think the security around these should be just a touch less than that for nukes.

[oldtimer]

Kalifornistan: The motor voter law - mexican citizens voting to elect rats; leaving the polls open to round up bused voters in exchange for chicken wings, or even crack; nursing home patients with alzheimers being "helped" by rat campaign workers, and so on.

If the rats lose the next one, they will, as usual, say it was rigged.

[lifelong_republican]

The electronic systems lose votes (up to 70-80% so far), switch votes, and fake votes.

The Republican voters who sought to support Senator Rick Santorum saw the electronics switch their votes in the last election.

[lifelong_republican]

Thank you for this contribution. You are right that the correct term is "cracker" instead of "hacker". You are also absolutely correct about the need for scrutiny.

[lifelong_republican]

Those old forms of corrupt Democrat election subversion will not even be necessary now that the electronics make it so much easier to manipulate vote counts.