Bingo ballots.Every 'player' picks their candidate and stamps their name with a bingo dauber.
Every so often, one voter wins a toaster.
You'd have old people lined up a mile long.
You could even charge them, they'd love it even more.
Posted on 09/26/2004 9:24:08 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
"Impossible." -- David Bear, Diebold
What the chimp did: Simply by double-clicking the file, we opened a real Diebold audit log file, using real Diebold software. We then highlighted the records we wanted to obliterate. (Baxter, the chimp, has difficulty handling a mouse.) Baxter then hit the "Delete" key, erasing the audit log records, and then the "Enter" key, confirming the command.
What is the audit log? It is an automatically generated report that, like the "black box" in an airplane, is supposed to keep a record of everything that happens in the election. Supposedly, according to Diebold, it will keep a record of any tampering. And according to the Diebold RFP sales proposal to the state of Georgia, the audit log cannot be altered "by human intervention."
Well, it took a chimp 10 minutes to learn how to alter it. The truth is, you could alter Diebold's audit log by dropping a dead fish on it. Our demonstration, which Diebold called "impossible" and "a magic show" was all too real.
(Excerpt) Read more at blackboxvoting.org ...
Part of me wonders if the use of voting machines is just to help the media get the results out faster.
LOL. You know, your post has something in common with this one.....http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1227522/posts
I guess this is where the Dems will go when they lose this election.
I saw that after I posted. Its kind of eery
San Diego County's attempt to roll out these machines was a debacle. Classic example of a rushed and poorly-planned system deployment (esp. the training aspect), which the County then glossed over (or tried to.) Local radio hosts didn't let them skate, however.
Now we're hearing that Diebold may have serious issues on a purely technical level. Great: more ways for Dems to scream "vote fraud!"
lol. It could be the start of a theme......
I have always found it curious that we seem to have forgotten on aspect of society, when it comes to voting!
Aren't 'illiterate' voters disenfranchised from the process?
Wouldn't it be simpler just to have the candidates picture, with a little box next to it be a better way to cast a ballot?
And since many states are opting for electronic voting, putting together such a system would not be that difficult.
That's assuming, of course, that they know what each candidate looks like.
Just a thought!
"What the chimp did: Simply by double-clicking the file, we opened a real Diebold audit log file, using real Diebold software. We then highlighted the records we wanted to obliterate. "
"Well, it took a chimp 10 minutes to learn how to alter it. "
This is a totally disengenuous article.
By their own addmission, the 'chimp' didn't learn any such thing.
THEY brought up the list. THEY highlighted the idems THEY wanted to delete.
The only thing the chimp did was to hit 'delete' which THEY probably showed him which key it was, and then hit 'enter or any other key to confirm' the deletion.
How stupid do these people think we are??
Incredible.
Bingo ballots.Every 'player' picks their candidate and stamps their name with a bingo dauber.
Every so often, one voter wins a toaster.
You'd have old people lined up a mile long.
You could even charge them, they'd love it even more.
[Sarcasm torpedo ARMED. FIRE!]
Hmm. No links, no about page, just signed up.
Well, if you are from DU, the answer to the question is self-evident.
Every time I see a discussion like this I picture the images of the new technology, a majestic Airbus, state of the art and quintuple redundant safety systems, taking off before an ecstatic crowd, proud of their achievemnt and celebrating their countries' excellence.
Taking off, and majestically and deliberately rising slowly into the sky until it hit the grove of trees a mile and a half away. Killing their chief test pilot.
Every 'player' picks their candidate and stamps their name with a bingo dauber.
Every so often, one voter wins a toaster.
You'd have old people lined up a mile long.
You could even charge them, they'd love it even more.
What a resemblance to my latest World-ChangingTM idea--
Random appointment to Congress, just like jury duty!
No constant re-elections;
No more ballot-box stuffing;
No more bribery by special interests than we have now;
And people who will have to go back and live under the
laws they just passed!
Stupid enough to concentrate on irrelevancies and miss the most significant point of the article:
How easily the log file was blown away.
Did you ever have trouble with the logic section of the SATs?
The use of a voting machine is at best to avoid work, and at worst, an effort to fix elections.
Touch voting does not prevent using that touch screen simply to print out a scanable ballot that is counted in a separate scanner counter machine. You then have a paper trail and you've separated the touch screen computer from the counting machine. You can even put a sorter on the counting machine to force it to put Candidate A's votes in one pile and candidate B's in another. That way you can visually verify either a runaway or close election.
Let's face it. The hapless, the incompetent, the truly and pathetically ignorant have always used cheating as the great equalizer. It is part of the human gene, tucked away between the "license" and "liberal" genomes.
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