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Button on e-voting machine allows multiple votes
Oakland Tribune ^
| 11/01/2006
| Ian Hoffman
Posted on 11/04/2006 2:21:06 PM PST by calcowgirl
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To: calcowgirl
Hmm ... Sounds like Dems are already coming up with far-fetched before-the-fact excuses as to why they're going to lose.
To: calcowgirl
Oakland basedSounds like a setup for voter fraud complaints
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posted on
11/04/2006 2:23:49 PM PST
by
PatrickF4
To: calcowgirl
What in the world would a company selling voting machines be thinking, to put an external switch on the machine that could affect the totals. Beeper or not, this is outrageous.
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posted on
11/04/2006 2:26:12 PM PST
by
Vermonter
To: calcowgirl
"You can't do it surreptitiously," said Guy Ashley, spokesman for the Alameda County Registrar of Voters. "You have to know what you're doing.
Okay, so here's how you do it...
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posted on
11/04/2006 2:26:36 PM PST
by
kinoxi
To: calcowgirl; MikefromOhio
It's a featureNot something we really want to hear on a voting machine.....
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posted on
11/04/2006 2:26:44 PM PST
by
ARealMothersSonForever
(We shall never forget the atrocities of September 11, 2001.)
To: calcowgirl
How many times are dead people allowed to vote? Who is Chavez favoring in the election?
To: PatrickF4
If the machine beeps loudlyAnd if it does not beep loudly, everything is OK?
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posted on
11/04/2006 2:29:46 PM PST
by
ARealMothersSonForever
(We shall never forget the atrocities of September 11, 2001.)
To: calcowgirl
Louisiana has been using electronic voting machines for decades now. If I'm not mistaken, that button is what the attendant presses to enable the next person in line to vote after one person already has. In order for a voter to screw around with that, he would have to literally walk all the way around the machine, right next to where the attendant is, then walk back into the booth and vote again. Unless Helen Keller is working the booth, it's impossible not to get caught.
Hooray, we're ahead of the curve on something!
To: kinoxi
As if this "way behind the machine button" would keep people working together taking advantage of this when they want.
SEQUOIA, the brand owned by Hugo Chavez and used to help him choose our leaders.
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posted on
11/04/2006 2:31:37 PM PST
by
dersepp
(I Am A Militia Of One)
To: ARealMothersSonForever
If I were a cheating poll worker, I would set the machine to multiple votes before the polls opened, and then inform all my friends how to vote multiple times. It would really be easy to get hundreds of extra votes.
To: dersepp
Is this the company he owns? It would make sense. As far as a 'beeping' sound goes, it would have to be pretty loud in my precinct (Md) for anyone to hear it.
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posted on
11/04/2006 2:35:35 PM PST
by
kinoxi
To: calcowgirl
On our electionic voting machines you receive a plastic data card that serves as a single ballot. I've never seen a variation on this for an electronic machine. One ballot, one vote. What are they doing in CA?
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posted on
11/04/2006 2:37:03 PM PST
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: Always Right
If I were a cheating poll workerAnd we all know that THAT has never happened.....
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posted on
11/04/2006 2:43:10 PM PST
by
ARealMothersSonForever
(We shall never forget the atrocities of September 11, 2001.)
To: ARealMothersSonForever
These voting machines are the most accurate way to count the votes in the history of mankind.
What you are witnessing is a Dem campaign to discredit the machines, and these machines do come close to nonrepudiation.
What they really want is the option to easily manipulate the vote count. What they really want is the old computer punch card ballots.
To: calcowgirl
Question: why do we spend hundreds of millions on voting machines that are used one or two days a year?
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posted on
11/04/2006 2:51:29 PM PST
by
BW2221
To: calcowgirl
Electronic voting should NEVER be permitted.
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posted on
11/04/2006 2:52:39 PM PST
by
Jim Noble
(If we can't leave a democracy behind, we should at least leave the corpses of our enemies.)
To: BW2221
why do we spend hundreds of millions on voting machines that are used one or two days a year?Because the contracts are awarded to a local company, and there are no specific standards in place?
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posted on
11/04/2006 2:55:04 PM PST
by
ARealMothersSonForever
(We shall never forget the atrocities of September 11, 2001.)
To: kinoxi
Thats just what I was thinking L0L
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posted on
11/04/2006 2:59:45 PM PST
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: Jim Noble
seriously
despite all of the problems, paper ballots were far harder to tamper with
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posted on
11/04/2006 3:02:09 PM PST
by
ChurtleDawg
(Go Mike Steele!)
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