Electronic Voting Can't Be Trusted

Sun-Sentinel ^ | 29 November 2006 | Norma Fisher

[lifelong_republican]

"...These machines must go. There is no way to know if one's vote is accurately accounted for..."

[lifelong_republican]

They're designed, built, programmed, and operated in secrecy. They're unreliable and known to lose, switch, and fake votes. The United States of America should be setting an example of clean elections for the world.

[camle]

where was all this concern BEFORE they were mandated? whining after the fact is just plain silly. should have made noise BEFORE. some of us did, but hardly enough.

[wideawake]

Thanks for the DU-style paranoia.

Now, back to reality.

[stylin19a]

a letter to the editor ? concrete solid evidence.

[newgeezer]

There is no way to know if one's vote is accurately accounted for.

"Duh!" (Nice to see someone else with a grasp of the obvious.)

[Admin Moderator]

The Activism sidebar is reserved for Free Republic chapters - not letters to the Editor.

AM.

[Jaxter]

OK! But first a little Foggy Mountain Breakdown..

[Joe Brower]

This is rich. The same whiny liberals who made such a big deal over the problem with the (democrat designed and administered) paper ballots, and who were instrumental in getting these electronic machines installed, now whine about "the lack of a paper trail". Why? Because the equipment change still doesn't allow them to win all the elections they wanted to. So it's back to paper, I guess, which still won't work, and so it goes.

This whole charade is happening in my AO, where the dems are up in arms over Vern Buchanan's (Repub) victory over Christine Jennings. A narrow win, but a win nonetheless. Of course, it's a crack wide enough to fit some high-profile lawyer into.

Let it be noted that the same machinery in the same election handed Bill Nelson another six years in the Senate. But -- sssshhhh! Don't mention that.

Pathetic.

Florida Freeper

[Dilbert San Diego]

This all came about because there was a rush to judgement after the 2000 Florida election, and concerns about hanging chads and dimpled chads and the fact that computer punch card voting machines don't give perfect results. So a decision was made, helped in part by the Help America Vote Act, that computerized voting machines are what we need to get the most accurate vote count.

The consensus even among some Republicans after Florida was that there are problems with the punch card type systems or the old fashioned voting machines where you pull the levers behind a curtain and vote that way.

So there are unintended consequences with these new machines. Maybe some prefer lack of any paper trail or recounting ability.


While the punch cards aren't perfect, let's remember that there was hardly any shift in the Florida recount. The first vote count was very accurate. On Election Night 2000, Bush won Florida by 1,900 votes. After all the hanging chad dimpled chad nonsense, the official vote count showed Bush ahead by 537 votes. So about 1,300 votes out of 6 million cast were reversed by Democrats eager to find as many hanging chads as possible. Percentage wise, it was a miniscule change.

[rhombus]

OK let's re-vote.

[JimRed]

..."known to lose, switch and fake" votes? "Known" by whom? Is it like the "well known fact" that Irish are drunks, blacks are lazy, Jews are greedy, Poles are stupid, Italians are criminals, and Democrats are for the working man?

Document your sources, please. Lifelong, maybe, but Republican? You sound as Republican as a "people's republic".

We know the RATS want paper ballots because they are much easier to fake.

[camle]

the easiest and most reliable and verifiable method doesn't use electricity. paper ballots.

[alloysteel]

Electronic Voting Can't Be Trusted

Translation: the Dem'crats have not learned yet how to hack into the recording capabilities on these electronic voting machines, so they are "unfair".

[Yo-Yo]

One fiddle, two banjoes, and seven firearms? What were they playing, the 1812 Overture?

[Paradox]

lifelong_republican, are you the same life long republican that I see quoted so much in the MSM, and ocassionally call in on the Rush Limbaugh show?

Welcome to FreeRepublic.

[Doctor Raoul]

They're designed, built, programmed, and operated in secrecy. They're unreliable and known to lose, switch, and fake votes. The United States of America should be setting an example of clean elections for the world.

So are your local ATMs, yet the dipsticks trust them.

How often did we hear the moonbat libs speak glowingly of ATMs versus punch card technology in 2000?

[Retired Chemist]

I read that the 18,000 undervotes in Sarasota County were mostly from Democrats.

[brownsfan]

"They're designed, built, programmed, and operated in secrecy. They're unreliable and known to lose, switch, and fake votes. The United States of America should be setting an example of clean elections for the world."

I couldn't agree more.
As a citizen, I realize my vote is not worth much, but it is a vote, and it is mine. Undermine the integrity of the vote and we have nothing. It will be the fall of America.

[Doctor Raoul]

Welcome Jeb Eddy.

[subterfuge]

Well it is a certainty that paper ballots can NEVER be lost, swithced or faked in any way. /sarcasm.