Agreed, I've been thinking the same thing for years. The morning after an election we whine and complain about fraud but in the interim years no one addresses it other than photo ID. My greatest concern is that some of these machines are preloaded with Dem votes by the thousands.
Is there such a thing as a software audit? If so, what if each party had the right to choose a limited number of machines to audit the day before an election (presumably in opposing party's strongholds) and then lock them down with tamper evident seals? Knowing nothing about IT, am I in fantasyland?
snip—”In South Carolina, 100% of election results will be redirected through a private Barcelona, Spain-owned company, Scytl/SOE Software, before being reported to the public.”
Scytl is suspect—Who counts the votes?
How can we fight voting fraud? See:
America’s Elections Watchdog Group
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/
Exactly, they were worried in 2008 that Obama, being an empty suit and (according to the left)America being racist (they were worried many people wouldn’t vote for a black man in the privacy of the voting both) he might not win. So they set up an incredible network of fraudulent votes. It was no secret that ACORN was signing up tens of thousand of bogus voters on registration roles that were going to be used. They didn’t use all those bogus voter registration, as it was very clear in the last week the pathetic McCain was going to be slaughtered.
But all those bogus registrations are available for 2012. And you are right about screwing with voting machines. Every effort to return to a paper ballot. even as a backup, has been squashed. Ballots can be counted and recounted under the supervision of representatives from both parties. Once the numbers are totaled in a machine, there is no way to validate they are correct - no ballots to pull out and compare.
I have a feeling the fraud will be at unseen levels. Much more than what we saw in 2,000. The democraps were starting to build their fraud base on a national scale, and have had 12 years to perfect it. I also have a bad feeling that it will be so well done, it will be hard to uncover except in a few obvious cases - which they will allow to be exposed and claim that there was only a small amount of fraud and it was exposed.
We may have lost this country and don’t even understand it yet