"Clerks facing blackout on election information"

World Net Daily ^ | 16 October 2007 | WorldNetDaily.com

[lifelong_republican]

"...The issue of voting machine certification is critical because of tests that have revealed teams of computer hackers sanctioned by California Secretary of State Debra Bowen were able to hack without difficulty into various vendors' touch-screen voting machines during a "top to bottom review" of every system certified by the state, according to a University of California study.

Diebold touchscreen voting machine

The report concluded the machines could be manipulated using "tools that can be found in a typical office and could be executed by a very low-skilled attacker."

Voting equipment for the timed test included devices from Sequoia, Hart InterCivic and Diebold. Election Systems and Software failed to submit its equipment for the review prior to the deadline, but Bowen said she has "the legal authority to impose any condition" on use of the vendor's equipment in the state..."

[lifelong_republican]

If you let a computer do it for you, you aren't really voting.

[Flintlock]

Go back to the old mechanicals that we STILL USE here in NY.
The WORST that happens is that you jam up ONE MACHINE—that’s why you have spares.
The only electrical connection is for the light bulb used to illuminate the screen. With dual watchers, ya can’t mess with them.
The ONLY reason for computerizing things is to get FAST RESULTS FOR THE NEWS MEDIA.
Who needs that?

[lifelong_republican]

Thank you so much Flintlock! You are so right.
I’d rather have confidence in the casting and
counts than a hasty questionable ‘tally’. The
electronics are unreliable and exhorbitantly
expensive, and voters who could be filling
out ballots have to wait in long lines to
use them.