washingtonpost.com — The judge chastised state officials for botching efforts to ensure that electronic voting machines are tamper-proof and added that the office had done an "abysmal" job documenting which tests were performed on the machines -- but he cleared them for use in the November election, saying it is too late now to change course.
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brstilsonSep 26, 2006
Rome was a democracy only for the first few hundred years. If you're going to compare the US to it, keep in mind that for most of it's history, Rome was a totalitarian dictatorship.
Closed AccountSep 26, 2006
Yes indeed, we must stay the course. Even if the course is riding a psychotic horse toward a burning stable.
zorpscorpSep 26, 2006
I, for one, am voting for Chewbacca ;)
bitslayerSep 26, 2006
Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos.
Closed AccountSep 26, 2006
I got my absentee balot signed up for...had to tell them i would have to work on tuesday out of townbut i feel better voting absentee than diebold.
akzidenzgroteskSep 26, 2006
If you had all that data on the receipt then your vote would no longer be anonymous.@Katana that is why you would turn in the receipts also, just like you do with a paper ballot now. maybe dont print your name on the reciept, to keep it anonymous. ive heard this idea proposed every fall since 2000, so i dont know why someone hasnt done something about it yet. at the very least, make the method consistent from one county and state to the next, instead of having paper ballots with hanging chads, computers with faulty memory or whatever and who knows what else. even if it comes down to "check the name of the candidate you want", consistency would be better than the current system.
akzidenzgroteskSep 26, 2006
Rome was a democracy only for the first few hundred years. If you're going to compare the US to it, keep in mind that for most of it's history, Rome was a totalitarian dictatorship.@brstilson well... if we arent careful, we could be heading in that direction too. rome wasnt built in a day, and it didnt fall in one either.
positronSep 26, 2006
I'd agree if you didn't add in that allusion to a socialist healthcare system.
positronSep 26, 2006
That does seem to be the direction we're headed doesn't it? A corporate poligopoly.
mgreenwaldSep 30, 2006
Here are the counties that use Diebold machines as of *11/2005*:AdamsBroomfieldCostillaDeltaDouglasEaglePasoGilpinHinsdalePlataLarimerMineralMontezumaOurayPitkinSaguacheTellerWeldYumaHere is my source ((Look at Voting Equipment Inventory - 2005)):<a class="user" href="http://www.elections.colorado.gov/DDefault.aspx?tid=113">http://www.elections.colorado.gov/DDefault.aspx?tid=113</a>Thankfully Boulder County, where I live, uses HART.