Lou Dobbs has a poll

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/ ^

[ArcLight]

I have no confidence in them at all. Without some kind of printout to back it up, these machines aren't worth a hoot.

[Eala]

How much confidence do you have in electronic voting?
A lot 8% 263 votes
Some 12% 388 votes
A little 12% 380 votes
None 69% 2257 votes
Total: 3288 votes

I have none. And that includes votes cast electronically at state Republican party conventions.

[sharktrager]

I don't even want to know about Lou Dobbs pole.

[Saundra Duffy]

Voted. None is winning.

[Andy_Stephenson]

I have none either...But then I have researched these machines for 18 months. I helped bring out the information regarding them.

[ozzymandus]

If there are RATs involved, it will be crooked. Simple as that.

[breakem]

LOL.

[The SISU kid]

I also choose none. But then this is kind or ironic by using a form of electronic "polling"


8^)

[breakem]

I worked the poll last week at the fire station (no pun) in Menifee CA in soutwest Riverside County. I believe our county was the first one in Cal and maybe the country to use electronic voting. Folks can vote at four malls in the county or at the registrars office for two weeks before the election, as well as the usual absentee ballots.

For the first 90 minutes I asked folks coming off the machines if they preferred the old way or the new. It was unanimous for the new.

Two negative comments out of 500+ all day. One thought the votes could be altered and the other forgot to close off her vote by hitting the last prompt. We corrected that right away.

Our system is Sequoia and we had no problems. The system is closed. There is no internet connection or phone lines of any kind. Cartridges are taken out of the back of the machine at the end of the day and delivered by two people to the registrars office. The registrar has a reader for the cartridges which tallys up the votes and issues print outs of the totals and records of the votes at each location.

I think this is a great system and subject to abuse only to the extent the paper ballot system was. Maybe less.

[The SISU kid]

By the way, Welcome to FR

[mc5cents]

How much confidence do you have in a Lou Dobbs Poll?
A lot 8% 263 votes
Some 12% 388 votes
A little 12% 380 votes
None 69% 2257 votes
Total: 3288 votes

There, that's better

[Andy_Stephenson]

I can hack sequoia...The password is get this "Password". Did Mischelle Townsend tell you they were not connected to the internet? I bet it was. In fact the Sequoia machine DOES have a wireless connection...I have the seen the schematics for it.As for secure...Any MCSE (Of which there are 1000's) can write a VBA program and tamper with the ballots. When the election is finished the "hack" disappears. If you noticed on the back of the machine...there is a large yellow botton...that takes you into admin mode. All sorts of havoc can be wreaked there. But there just as safe as paper. Yeah...right!

[Andy_Stephenson]

I can hack sequoia...The password is get this "Password". Did Mischelle Townsend tell you they were not connected to the internet? I bet it was. In fact the Sequoia machine DOES have a wireless connection...I have the seen the schematics for it.As for secure...Any MCSE (Of which there are 1000's) can write a VBA program and tamper with the ballots. When the election is finished the "hack" disappears. If you noticed on the back of the machine...there is a large yellow botton...that takes you into admin mode. All sorts of havoc can be wreaked there. But they just as safe as paper. Yeah...right!

[Quix]

Nice to have NONE at 67%

[breakem]

I just saw your response. Of course we didn't talk to Michelle we were trained by someone from her office. I don't know how any one could have hacked the machines during the voting. One of us observed the voters all day. We collectively ejected the cartridges and two of us delivered them to the registrars office. We were told that the registrars machine would tabulate by counting the individual cartridges and totalling all the votes. That machine constituted a closed system and was not connected.

That sounds to me like a good system. Not impentrable, but closed.

Corrupt people can cheat on most anything. You've probably heard all the stories of corruption with paper ballots.

I'm willing to listen to specifics.

[breakem]

Don't know what an MSCE is. Can someone drive by the poll and hack because there's a wireless capability. Would the machine have to have an opening to the connection or is that automatic (the yellow button). Townsend is getting alot of credit. Where is she on the wrong track? Speak plainly, I'm barely a techie.