Democracy for Sale: Insecure Electronic Voting Machines

The Treasury Department, which is supposed to be the look into connections between sensitive US infrastructure and foreign interests has failed yet again to protect the American people. Smartmatic, the Electronic Voting Machine manufacturer whose machines are notorious for failures, is based in Venezuela and jealously guards the software that counts the votes as "trade secrets".

Will you trust your right to vote to secret ballot counting machines that leave behind no trace of evidence showing what you really intended? If you live in 23 of the 50 United States, that's exactly what you're doing.

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[devknob]

I would try to explain this, but the majority of people have been conditioned into thinking everything is a conspiracy theory.

[delsur2009]

Seems that anyone in the whole world besides US can be more advanced what a joke! Even Brazil is more advanced!

[fogaoagas]

I fail to understand why there the US uses voting machines in the first place... wait, i know, hand count is for underdeveloped countries... oh wait, a hand count is cheaper, more eficient less prone to tampering and only takes about 2 more hours to than an electronic count... wait, i'm confused.. why the voting machines again?

[WNanette]

Racist?

A Venezuelan is European, just like 'whitie' - both Semitic.

[WNanette]

zahararaks, you can register or change your registration preferences to vote ABSENTEE. This will also free that same amount of time to be a set of eyes for the process.

We need to be super vigilant about the next Prez nominee, you know a Dem will win this time, but they can be bought, too. *_*

[zahararaks]

How do we go back to a paper ballot? Got any ideas? Who do we email or wright?

[jalabi99]

MightyTiny, you got it. It doesn't matter who owns the company or what country it is from, what matters is e-voting is a closed system. Voting demands OPEN systems, and a paper ballot is the most open system possible.

[MightyTiny]

The problem is of course not who owns and manufactures the machines and their software, but the fact that the law allows the details of those machines and software to remain a trade secret! ANYTHING involving casting votes, or counting them, MUST be open, publically available knowledge - including, and especially the details of the machines and software used, as that is an obvious place where fraud could occur.

[ochobit]

This seems for like a decoy to me. Call me paranoid but I have right to be so amidst everything going on. I think they're trying get peoples attention on this so when they fix it people feel secure about the voting system. Not noticing that the problem was not who owned but the machines and the corrupt system behind them.

[satanismybrother]

this is unbeleivable, there is no evidence of tampering, they're only problem is that it's a forign company involved. Sounds racist to me.