Posted on 05/10/2006 9:37:36 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Did a government agency select the vendor? Figures.
My local ATM machine works well. Haven't read any articles about it's major holes. lately.
Matter of fact my banking websites seem to work well too.
Hmmmm...
Meanwhile, moonbat heads explode.....
Why the rush to touch-screen? Machine-readable paper ballots are just as fast and leave a better audit trail. They work well for local elections here in Toronto, but don't get me started on the clowns they declare as winners...
As I've been saying since 2000, screw this high tech crap and stick with a directly filled out paper ballot.
Rightly or wrongly, people don't trust computers and electronics to record votes, and inherent mistrust of the American electoral system is undesirable.
Olberman will be all over this tonight.
Didn't read the whole article, but sounds like the "device" could be a USB card reader. Newer computers will boot off of a Compact Flash card. There are even Linux installations that will fit on one.
Yep, and after November, the Democrats will control Congress and oversee who programs what...unless the Republican Senate comes to Jesus on the Mexican Border.
I refuse to use those hackable machines. Will vote absentee, sent by certified mail every time. That gives me a receipt.
We're doomed anyway, so why does it matter?
As in all her previous elections she was swept into office by a landslide 100% vote from her adoring subjects...
Let us remember:
We're using the touch screen machines because the punch card system wasn't good enough for the left. And who's complaining about the touch screen system..... the left.
(Actually, the initial complaints about the punch-card system were basically a ploy to allow a recount under circumstances where the Democrats could change the result. One of the guys involved in Florida was a consultant who'd been marketing for several years his ability to change outcomes if he got his hands on the cards.)
The left will continue griping about voting systems, using their proxies among the "public interest" groups, until someone comes along with one that only has a "D" button on it, at which point they'll pronounce it acceptable. Their main objection at the moment is that the Diebold systems are produced by one of those "evil profit-making corporations."
Wait a cotton-pickin' minute here...
This "vulnerability" requires access to the *inside* of the machine...?
Well, duh? It's pretty much impossible to make any system invulnerable to that level of access. -- including the counting machines for paper ballots.
It's like saying ballot boxes are vulnerable if somebody gets access to the inside of the box.
Why don't they encase the things in Kryponite, thereby thwarting Democrats everywhere.
Ah.. sounds like the dreaded "Rovian Hole".
Touch screen and punch card are not the only two options.
picked up at dembot HQ
ya know, dis new voting machine is killin' me. I cant figure out how to pump in my votes.
As you know wit' da' lever machine it was simple. hit 'da lever wit' as many slots as you had and no prob.
Also no prob wit da punch ballots providin' ya had a good punch....
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
- Joseph Stalin
Meanwhile, the Democrats in California are registering ILLEGAL ALIENS hand over fist, which is a federal crime.
I guess there just aren't enough dead people in the cemeteries.
Yep. And every one of them has some form of security flaw. Paper ballots can be erased or replaced. Optical scanners can be reprogrammed, as can the old 'lever-type' voting machines. The central computers which tally the result can be compromised, too.
And... every one of those methods can produce accurate and honest results if used properly. Security or the lack thereof comes from the system, not the tools used.
"We're doomed anyway, so why does it matter?"
Well sure, in the long run we're all doomed.
And political careers rarely have happy endings.
Still, the conservative right doesn't have to be doomed THIS election.
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