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[axe863]

Why do the "rock the vote people" purely target the college age group? Because theyre mostly liberals.

[itry2brational]

OK, well you obviously have nothing to offer to the conversation. When you dont have to resort to ad hominems you can join the rest of the kids.

[vudumojo]

itry2brational = idiot

[itry2brational]

Your first comment is absolutely ridiculous and completely unfounded.

And you are being an overly paranoid conspiracy theorist. Do you really think that Diebold(or any company) isnt under a microscope? Are the people at Diebold NOT U.S. citizens/'the American people'? If they were paid off, where would they put the money? How would they account for it? How much would have to be used to keep employees quiet? Who would pay them off and how will they account for their spending? etc ad infinitum

[itry2brational]

Seriously, your first sentence is absolutely ridiculous and completely unfounded.

You are being an overly paranoid conspiracy theorist. Do you really think that Deibold(or any other company) isnt under a microscope when making voting machines/programs? Are people at Deibold NOT U.S. citizens? Are they NOT 'the American people'? If Diebold can be 'bought' where will they put the money? How will they account for it? How much will have to be used to keep their own people quiet?

etc etc etc etc

[vudumojo]

You're trusting a corporation with who gets elected instead of the American people.

A corporation, Diebold namely, who can be bought.

You're not thinking.

[itry2brational]

And you dont think that programmers can have oversight? You dont think that a voting program can be reviewed by...other programmers? I think one thing you have a misconception about is that one person is writing these programs. Thats not how it works. Several people do, and several more review and test it. It would be just as hard a conspiracy to make backdoors for a voting program as it would be to rig a paper vote.

[vudumojo]

It's the software.

No software will ever be safe because you can write back doors in it that nobody but the author of that software could know about, and with that level of temptation it absolutely will be exploited, theres too much power and money involves.

Yes paper isn't perfect and it's a mess, but it's a far better system because in order to control the vote with hand counted paper votes it would require a vast conspiracy of hundreds of people, and that isn't going to happen.

[itry2brational]

How does that solve anything? Even with the paper ballots it was still a huge mess. And if you are not smart enough to use a touch screen you dont need to be deciding who runs the most powerful country in the world. my 2 cents

[itry2brational]

How does that solve anything? Even with the paper ballots it was still a huge mess. And if you are not smart enough to use a touch screen you dont need to be deciding who runs the most powerful country in the world. my 2 cents