Button on e-voting machine allows multiple votes

Oakland Tribune ^ | 11/01/2006 | Ian Hoffman

[JennysCool]

Hmm ... Sounds like Dems are already coming up with far-fetched before-the-fact excuses as to why they're going to lose.

[PatrickF4]

Oakland based

Sounds like a setup for voter fraud complaints

[Vermonter]

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.

[kinoxi]

"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...

[ARealMothersSonForever]

It's a feature

Not something we really want to hear on a voting machine.....

[Richard from IL]

How many times are dead people allowed to vote? Who is Chavez favoring in the election?

[ARealMothersSonForever]

If the machine beeps loudly

And if it does not beep loudly, everything is OK?

[Gordongekko909]

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!

[dersepp]

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.

[Always Right]

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.

[kinoxi]

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.

[Caipirabob]

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?

[ARealMothersSonForever]

If I were a cheating poll worker

And we all know that THAT has never happened.....

[Red Steel]

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.

[BW2221]

Question: why do we spend hundreds of millions on voting machines that are used one or two days a year?

[Jim Noble]

Electronic voting should NEVER be permitted.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

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?

[mylife]

Thats just what I was thinking L0L

[ChurtleDawg]

seriously
despite all of the problems, paper ballots were far harder to tamper with