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"Electronic voting not safe, warns election watchdog"
The Guardian ^ | 02 August 2007 | Will Woodward, chief political correspondent

Posted on 08/02/2007 4:17:52 AM PDT by lifelong_republican

"..."significant and unacceptable" security risk..."

(Excerpt) Read more at politics.guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: america; american; representation; vote
Americans deserve real ballots, and shouldn't be outdone in election integrity by anyone else.

Real Votes Aren't Electronic.

1 posted on 08/02/2007 4:17:55 AM PDT by lifelong_republican
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To: lifelong_republican

I like my optically scanned paper ballot just fine.


2 posted on 08/02/2007 4:37:08 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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To: cripplecreek

With opscan, what you thought you
chose need not be counted at all.

If it’s a count based on opscans
only, it’s not necessarily valid.


3 posted on 08/02/2007 4:59:14 AM PDT by lifelong_republican (Real Americans: Real Ballots)
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To: lifelong_republican

Electronic voting machines seem to be just fine when the RATS win.


4 posted on 08/02/2007 5:20:43 AM PDT by Axelsrd
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To: lifelong_republican

Gee, look, yet another thread (of the hundreds of threads by now) started by lifelong_republican whining about electronic voting. Do you have any other interests, or do you just scour the Internet looking for articles to post here about the evils of electronic voting? I’d suggest you step away from the computer, leave the bunker, and go get some actual human contact for a while.


5 posted on 08/02/2007 5:37:30 AM PDT by TexasAg1996
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To: Axelsrd

Those who support electronic election subversion
want HillBama to get in.


6 posted on 08/02/2007 5:41:55 AM PDT by lifelong_republican (Real Americans: Real Ballots)
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To: TexasAg1996

You seem to be the one whining.

Nobody’s forcing you to read threads
which involve technical concepts of
which you are unaware.

Perhaps you’d have accused the founders
of the USA of ‘whining’ when they objected
to taxation without representation.

If you support electronic ‘voting’, you
support denying Americans their votes
and robbing them as taxpayers.


7 posted on 08/02/2007 5:43:47 AM PDT by lifelong_republican (Real Americans: Real Ballots)
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To: lifelong_republican

No voting is safe from a voting block to ignorant or stupid to use a butterfly ballot!!!


8 posted on 08/02/2007 6:21:13 AM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: ontap

Some disabled people need assistance in
creating a ballot, but there’s no way
they’d need electronics to do so, much
less the totally defective ones in place.


9 posted on 08/02/2007 6:31:18 AM PDT by lifelong_republican (Real Americans: Real Ballots)
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To: lifelong_republican

The disabled are not the problem. A whining party made up of the intellectually challenged that is incapable of accepting a loss is the problem. Along with another party incapable of mounts an offense against such malarkey.


10 posted on 08/02/2007 6:36:00 AM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: ontap

The disabled are being abused as patsies
by the electronic ‘voting’ racketeers,
no less.

Electronic ‘voting’ will change your vote
to one for HillBama in ‘08, if you don’t
insist on preparing your own real ballot
and observing that it’s counted correctly.


11 posted on 08/02/2007 2:00:05 PM PDT by lifelong_republican (Real Americans: Real Ballots)
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To: lifelong_republican
If you support electronic ‘voting’, you support denying Americans their votes and robbing them as taxpayers.

This is the kind of hyperbole I'd expect from kooks who think the machines are out to get them. If you posted an original thought in all this time, I'd be shocked. It's always the same thing with you - post an article about electronic voting, then say anyone who disagrees with you wants to steal elections. Could you just start a single thread where you post all the articles you find. It'd probably cut down on your clutter.
12 posted on 08/02/2007 5:45:18 PM PDT by TexasAg1996
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To: TexasAg1996

You should care as much about your own vote as do
those who insist on accurate elections. Computer
scientists are pointing out that the systems are
not sufficient for this important task.

It’s your duty, your civic obligation, to defend
the representation in government for which the
founders of the USA were willing to fight.


13 posted on 10/17/2007 2:08:57 AM PDT by lifelong_republican (Real Americans: Real Ballots)
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