Posted on 6/30/2004, 5:59:53 AM by kattracks
Edited on 7/12/2004, 11:17:00 PM by Jim Robinson. [history]
Election officials need to have voting machines analyzed, provide more thorough training for election workers and carefully monitor the process to ensure the security of votes in the November election, a report released yesterday recommended.
"[Ensuring] the security of every American's vote is no less important than having the right to vote," said Wade Henderson, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, one of the groups that released the recommendations.
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A voter better come in the door with their ID, and it better match the photocopy of it in the login book, or you lose your chance to vote. No ID, no vote.
Have Republicans demanded this?
No.
Has Bush demanded this? No.
The lawyers have been handed the keys to the car.
Hard to punch through hanging chads with electronic machines.
Dem panties are oficially bunched.
What is so hard with paper ballots, canvassing boards and returns tabulated before next business day? Stupidity, illiteracy, and corruption have undermined our voting process. The process of voting machines covers up the individual that is limited to punching once, even if he knows nothing of the candidate.
You know...the complaints against electronic voting seem to be coming from more liberal sources than conservative sources. Yeah I know there are concerns about Liberal "script kiddies" who might hack in and change the software allowing liberals to win!
Yet could it be the loudest sqwawking is coming from liberals who are realizing that they can't cook the machines like they used to any more?
As long as the machines are open source, verifiable, AND, most importantly, have a paper trail, they are fine.
The Diebold touch-screen system GA adopted in the last election cycle does not have a paper trail. I don't trust it.
This issue requires a lot of scrutiny. In past elections I have observed a lot of vote fraud in Demo precincts. One of the primary means here in Texas is for the Democrat Election Judge to tamper with the ballots after the polls close. I was told by Harris County (Houston) workers that it is common for some precincts to turn in the ballot box the NEXT MORNING (I guess they had a lot of arduous punching to do). In the 2000 election they punched out the Gore chad (in case you were wondering where those double-punched ballots came from). I predict that with electronic machine voting the vote fraud perps will resort to simply casting a vote for everyone on the official roll. In 1996 in Port Arthur, TX, the voters in one precinct voted in alphabetical order and all signed their name WITH IDENTICAL HANDWRITING. BTW, I have copies of some of the records that prove this. Vote fraud is a serious challenge to our Republic and can easily swing an election.
True...but it doesn't go to my point...the left is screaming about the electronic machines more than the right...why is that? Maybe you can't defraud them as easily as you could the old machines perhaps?
I don't understand why the machines aren't set up to provide a paper receipt of ones vote with specially embossed coded paper....that way if there is any question about the machines...the receipts could be checked easily enough?
To expand on my reply, this coded bonded receipt would then be scrutinized by the voter then entered back thru a slot before leaving the booth as a final check as to ones one's vote. The voter would then receive the receipt back and told to hold it for a period of 3 to 6 months as a final check in case of any challenges. A copy of the paper receipt would also be kept on record as well. Electronic digits can easily be lost but paper can not.
Laws can be passed regarding the paper ballot receipts...in the event of a recount a voter can bring their ballot to have it checked against the identical ones on file. Any inconsistencies between ballots would nullify both ballots, anyone who did not bring their ballots for matching would have their on file ballots counted. While this last point might lead to some fraud, the fact that ones vote might not be counted or counted wrong would be a strong encouragement for folks to stay involved with the election recounts.
It doesn't have to be paper receipts these could be on the spot laser embossed plastic tokens or discs with the names inscribed as well as encrypted verification codes! The plastic can be chemically coded as well to ensudre that te cards themselves weren't faked.
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