Posted on 11/05/2004 8:33:18 AM PST by watchinginawe
Anyone following the sore losers know that they are claiming fraud by the GOP wherever Electronic Voting Systems (EVS) were employed. In fact, a vast right wing conspiracy is blamed.
Maybe they are on to something with their data that shows "strange results" where EVS were employed, but not as they imagine. Perhaps many of the precincts using EVS are accurate for the first time. Its possible that the results can't be tampered with as before. If so, the results of this election clearly demonstrates who benefits when an accurate vote is obtained.
I think it was Stalin who said that elections are not decided by the voters, but by those who count the votes. I am all for electronic voting machines, but we better have built in safeguards to ensure that no one is jimmying the results, because it would be impossible to know what the actual outcome should have been.
That could get pretty messy after awhile. Heck, after a lifetime of voting, you might not have any bare skin left to mark!
Nothing built by man can't be cheated by man. "As secure and fair as reasonable" should be the goal. Completely secure and fair is impossible.
How would you indelibly mark the voter, is it practical?, can we have a central database that can verify if a person has voted instead? In places like Afghanistan I can see this being practical, but I don't think most people would put up with having a mark put on their body....
Really? Do you have a source for that claim, by any chance? It would certainly help me...
Sure, just look up what the Miami-Dade Dems said RIGHT after the 2000 election.
The Democrats wanted those electronic voting machines. It's their fault they have a problem with it, just like the bluehairs in FL who couldn't follow a freakin arrow.
Find any article in the Miami Herald in the early months of 2001, after the Bush inauguration. The left pins all the problems on the Republicans because of one word,... DIEBOLD.
I don't know either. It was in a reply to an earlier comment I made. Perhaps they are thinking of the Afghanistan election.
I would prefer a biometric voter registration card, that contained an electronic thumb print. If your thumb print doesn't match the one on the card or multiple cards match, there is a problem.
It's just your thumb. It takes several days to wear or wash off, and its only visible under a black light. Lots of countries do it.
The Rat's would claim it was a civil rights violation because black voters would be intimidated by the obvious parallels between inking and the branding of their forefathers.
How about Democrat-proof? Security built into the systems together with on-site security--observers from both sides, audits, and such.
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