[camle]

he who writes the program, decides the winner. And becomes very rich indeed!

[Mister Baredog]

saying they are less reliable and less secure from fraud than the equipment they are replacing.

I believe this is exactly what the Demoncrats had in mind when they were screaming for new stuff. Too many Republican poll watchers these days. They need new ways to cheat the system, some of the old ones are being challenged too often.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[upchuck]

I am not a "computer scientist," but I have spend 25 years in the computer hardware/software industry. I can state without doubt that there's never been system yet that couldn't be hacked and further that any piece of software that does useful, sophisticated work contains at least one undiscovered programming error (bug).

Touch screens and dials are nice but are of little use in case of a catastrophic failure. This is why the paper receipts as backup are so necessary.

We've been trying to create the paperless office for 30 years and have yet to succeed. Not likely with electronic voting systems either.

I'm sure we're smart enough to create an electronic voting system that will be easy to use and relatively foolproof. But to totally depend on hardware and software created by humans is very foolish.

[Theyknow]

Why does anyone think these things will work perfectly all the time? Without paper backup there is no assurance or way to recount. There is a reason these things are spreading like wildfire and it isn’t good. Why doesn’t anyone care about this issue? After 2000 it should be obvious what the Rats will do to claim an election.

[FreedomPoster]

Good - glad to see this coming to light. We voted touch screen for the first time in the last election, and I've been bitching since about the lack of an audit trail and the potential for fraud. The punch card "hanging chad" ballots we had before were just fine, thank you.

[Southack]

So tell me again why everytime you charge something onto your credit card you get a paper receipt (either in real-time or at the end of the month)?

Of course, that's just money. It's not like we're talking about voting or anything important...

< /SARCASM >

[KriegerGeist]

Without a "hard copy" paper ballot with a record of the vote for the particular candidate such as in a magic marked ballot next to a name, then you will have fraud.

I 2000 there were electronic ballots cast in PA that were completely lost in "ee-ther space" poof! gone. No paper hard copy record.

I'm all for marking a ballot (not punching) with the name, party and perhaps even their picture on it. Then, and only then, they can be tabulated and registered through an optical scanner.

Ballotless electronic voting will be our downfall.

[philman_36]

This has been warned about before.
Seen this, sourcery?

[boris]

He who controls the count controls the vote.

He who controls the software controls the count.

QED.

--Boris