Posted on 10/14/2004 11:38:46 AM PDT by flagthefly
Friends - one thing bothers me a lot these days. In the 2000 elections we got TV and paper info about the vote counting, the 'hanging chad' issue, the 'post voting' issue, the 'Fla. vote issue' and so on and so forth. Now I hear that in many U.S. places electronic voting machines are in use just like in many Euro cities. And what do we hear now? That electronic voting might be rigged, because no receipt is issued. This paranoid idea is no doubt thought up by Democrats, who will stop complaining as soon as said shortcoming works in their favor (which God may forbid). I as a European never got a receipt either, but this did not make me doubt the truthfulness of the outcome. It is plain silly that the Libs want to impress European newsmakers with this childish nonsense. Even worse: I am absolutely sure that they would complain in ANY possible counting situation, because it is their very nature to do so, even if God himself would be present counting votes. How serious is the effect brought about by all this defamation in the U.S.A. itself?
There are a lot of people concerned about this. I am and have been speaking out against them since I first found out that anyone would be naive enough to actually use them in elections. Computers are far too easily subverted in massive and unverifiable ways for a printed record not to be kept.
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