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What bank equipment are you referring to? ATMs are easily comprimised all the time. Any other computer system is easily suceptible to social engineering or user error. Without a paper trail, who knows what's happening? Also, here is an example of republican voter fraud. http://www.projo.com/news/content/projo_20060728_vote28.10a5d3e.html I am not trying to demonize the republicans as being worse than democrats. Both are scum It's the cheerleading that I find ridiculous.

As voter fraud goes, if the best you can come up with as "Republican fraud" is irregularities on a petition to get a politician on a ballot in a state where he has absolutely no chance of winning...if that's the best you can come up with, then you prove my point.

Compare, for example, with this story: 500 New Voters Might Not Exist. This is actual fraud that deliberately thwarts the will of the electorate.

Show me Republicans voting twice. Show me Republicans slashing tires on Election Day. You can't.

You missed my point RE: Diebold and the banking industry. It wasn't about hacking, cracking or any such thing. It has to do with short term gain versus long term gain. While an outsider may try to exploit a system, good accounting systems rely on several people looking over each others shoulders to keep each other honest. Imagine an insider at Diebold building a cheat into the banking systems used for thousands of customers. Every time interest is added to all of the savings accounts, a single dollar of that interest gets transfered to that insiders account, instead of getting credited to the customer.

My voting district uses scanners, so I've no idea if the touch screen machines are on the WWW, if they are just networked w/ each other or if they are stand alone. IMO, they should not be connected to the WWW. As far as a paper trail, I'd like to see touch screens that spit out scannable completed ballots, cuz there could be an automatic double count, as well as a reduction in stupid voter error.

Do you know who makes the machine buying decision? Which party do you think runs the districts where most of the "suspect" machines are used?

The example you gave as "voter fraud" wasn't voter fraud. Voter fraud is bus loads of people showing up at polling places after the place was supposed to have been closed. Vote fraud is over 8000 votes more than were "cast". Vote fraud is completed ballots floating around, to be found on election day in people's front yards. Vote fraud is registered voters "living" at nonexistent addresses.

Wisconsin has the most liberal voting requirements in the country. Show up at the polls with a utility bill for your ID & you can register & vote. A law was passed to require a picture ID. Our governor vetoed it.

I am not a Republican. I am a very angry independent. I know which party is perpetrating vote fraud in my state & which party is trying to do something about it. "They all do it", doesn't fly w/ me.