"Security concerns plague e-voting"

"An MIT computer-science professor warned federal officials that there is no satisfactory way to ensure the security of electronic voting machines..."

Each American voter is perfectly capable of creating an official ballot personally, confirming it, and keeping a watchful eye on the counting and tallying of that vote.

American voters don't need miscellaneous assorted unknown other people to create or count votes, especially not disguised and in total secrecy.

The votefraud racket has forced officials to violate election laws, base bad decisions on lies, and waste millions of taxpayer dollars on defective equipment under the threat of abuse of the legal system against them, when they aren't merely seduced into complicity by the promise of election-rigging ease. The federal committees are merely employees of the racketeers. They're intent on controlling election outcomes and running things in place of the American citizens.

The election-rigging is, however, out of even their hands. It can occur in the factories in Communist China in which the secret computers are manufactured.

If all of Canada, including Eskimo territory in the north, can vote with paper ballots and get them counted over night, every state in the US ought to be able to do the same. There is so much fraud and abuse in our election system that we can no longer rely on the results. But if e-voting can be rigged for '08 in favor of the Dems, don't expect them to want to change back to paper ballots that at least have to be destroyed to eliminate the evidence.

You have astutely noted:

"If all of Canada, including Eskimo territory in the north, can vote with paper ballots and get them counted over night, every state in the US ought to be able to do the same. There is so much fraud and abuse in our election system that we can no longer rely on the results. But if e-voting can be rigged for '08 in favor of the Dems, don't expect them to want to change back to paper ballots that at least have to be destroyed to eliminate the evidence."

You are absolutely right that it takes more effort and entails more risk of detection to hide the crime of election fraud with paper. Electronic voting can definitely and will assuredly be rigged, and it will involve robbery of the taxpayers.

Americans aren't too lazy to take charge of their elections personally and do the work of counting votes out in the open. Someone right here on Free Republic pointed out that they should be counted in the precincts each hour, and it could be done with video security in place as well as live observers. Yes, it involves effort, but that's an American tradition, too.

You are completely correct that paper systems aren't perfect, but the electronics are vastly worse.

While it requires observable effort to change, discard, or add paper votes, electronic counts can be rigged without the same amount of effort or any risk of observation.

Ballots should be kept under video security and counted out in the open in front of the public. We must be vigilant, always, to minimize the threat of election subversion, not make it easy and undetectable.

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