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You know the various reports about the insecurity of electronic voting machines worries me too...but the fact the Democrats are screaming about it gives me pause.

The same people that think requiring ID, as an absolute minimal requirement, to prove you are a indeed an eligible voter, think that this system could be abused huh?

So I see two possibilities.

The first option is that they are engaged in projection. The Dems know they can alter most of the current systems in their urban strong holds as they did in Florida in y2k. So they figure the more technologically savvy Reps can and will do the same back to them with this system.

The second option is that the system proposed, for all its flaws, is harder to hack then the currently used systems. We *know* the Dems can and do fool around with things as they are, perhaps they've yet to figure out how to do so to the proposed e-voting systems - at least without leaving a traceable sign the vote has been tampered with.

A 60 year old retiree in Florida can easily "lose" a Bush ballot here or there or "accidentally" create a hanging chad during a recount. Do you think this same person can hack a computer system???

Do you think this same person can hack a computer system???

Not the eyeballs at West Palm Beach.

I like the touch screen voting systems we have here in Georgia. But they obviously are going to be subject to hacking.

Whether they're more subject to hacking than the paper ballots, though, is open to debate.

It may be that they'll be harder for the post-terminally challenged loved ones to operate.

What's with making voting more accessible to the blind???? Last I checked, you had to see the touch screen to operate it.

...but the fact the Democrats are screaming about it gives me pause.

Kerry has stated that he will challenge in court the results of any precinct that uses electronic voting machines without paper backup.

That's about 30% of the vote.

There are articles on FR discussing this but I don't have time to look em up right now.

The yelling you hear now is the democrats setting the stage- we will have already heard what the problem is, and what will be done, before the election.