Should e-voting machines be outlawed?

Jack Cafferty, on CNN, asks if we still have any confidence in these machines.

http://www.cnn.com/CaffertyFile

Should electronic voting machines be outlawed, and why? Leave your comments here.

Would you make the same choice if you knew a malicious hacker, belonging to the political party you are *not* affiliated with, knew how to alter the outcome?

"The Deputy Attorney General says Colorado is safe from any tampering, because the state requires a print-out of each computer ballot."

Print-outs like the ones produced by a recent study by Princeton University?

http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting

OH! And on top of all *that*. Some Diebold machines can be opened with a key commonly used in office equipment and hotel mini-bars:

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1064

"Nationwide, more than 80% of voters will use electronic voting machines in November. One third of all precincts are using this technology for the very first time."

He then mentions Maryland's recent "nightmare":

http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/004823.html

http://www.truevotemd.org/

Footage courtesy of:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/09/19/cafferty-should-we-outlaw-e-voting-m...

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• cnn
• voting
• machines
• princeton
• hack
• diebold
• accuvote
• ts
• steal
• election
• voter
• fraud
• bush
• mccain
• push
• poll
• south
• carolina

[whater39]

use paper ballots.

When counting them. Have a representative from each party doing the tally. And maybe have a police offer patrolling between several counting tables.

This way no party can say anything is biased.

If there is any concern about a miscount, then use common sense and re-count them. Do not destroy the ballots till everyone is elected & everyone has done any possible legal appeal on the results.

Common sense, get it right.

[my15minutes]

eeyep.

that's the solution i would endorse as well. :)

tyvm for your comment.

[jonathangregoire]

the best way to get rid of it is to hack it in favor of Ron Paul!!! Then they will do something about it...

GO RON PAUL 2008

[my15minutes]

jon - heh. while i cannot endorse the idea of hacking it, even for the best of candidates, i certainly support your choice of who to do it for.

[owensaruba]

YES! I'll never consider wasting my time voting until my countrymen demand an honest count. And it doesn't look like that is going to happen anytime soon.

[my15minutes]

owen - hey, is that your actual first name? heh. still a little freaky for me to meet other owens. :D

what do you think of the basic idea, that i left in a comment last year, on this page?

the bit about being able to check back and verify who you voted for?

would that restore your confidence?

[cherylcroft]

Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman has RE_CERTIDIFED the DIEBOLD hackable voting machines for 2008 election!!!

NO FAIR ELECTIONS IN THE US anymore...if they ever were!

[OregonDARRYL]

Too late now America. You didn't want to believe it could happen and it did.

How to screw America:

1: Purchase congress - done

2: Purchase the media - done

3: Rig elections with crooked machines - done

4: Make trillions from from war and oil "shortages". Sell FEAR! - done

5: Exploit foreign workers - leave borders open. - done

Say goodbye to America - not enough people cared to question "authority", so the country was taken over. - done.

[ISISMainframe]

Looks like the last time mainstream media even talked about known DIEBOLD flaws was 4 years ago. The Mainstream Media and their Illuminati members have done a fine job FIXING the issue of VOTE outcomes since the days of JFK upsets. It would be a cack if Anonymous did something positive like make a virus that counters the easily uploadable DIEBOLD virus. This would kick the New World Order fair in the NUTS. Then they would have another UPSET and that UPSET would be RON PAUL.

[bladeproject1]

Outlaw Diebold.

[AcePilot101]

Canadians count their paper ballots by hand; there is no question of fraud there.

Why are Americans so stupid?

[hondaishere]

Now its.

Vote for Chuck Baldwin

Youtube:Chuck Baldwin

[prophecyunveiled]

Jack!(Palin)that,she could see!:the ussr from "Alaska!" she should! it was patr of the (USSR) until they! sold it to :America! I am surprised that! she has not! sold:(Moose!-Burgers!),to the:USSR! out! and say! it's from:"Wall-street!,"fannie may!" and "Freddie'Max!" lee/lakewood,WA.

[buttpluger56]

watch my video why voting is a fraud

[jonathangregoire]

The point of hacking it in favor of Ron Paul is not to have him elected (even if I want to see him as a president), it's to get rid of these machines. If the fraud is in favor of one of the candidate they didn't want to win, they will say it's a fraud and will have to get rid of those machines, and all the big media will do all they can to expose it.