washingtonpost.com — The FBI is investigating the possible theft of software developed by the nation's leading maker of electronic voting equipment, said a former Maryland legislator who this week received three computer disks that apparently contain key portions of programs created by Diebold Election Systems.
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thebloomsOct 21, 2006
Yeah, that's what we need, the most corrupt, anti-American organization in the world, run by despots that put Lybia and Iran on the Human Rights commission, to oversee the FAIREST elections on Earth.Are there errors? Yup. When 120,000,000 votes are cast, there are bound to be errors here and there. But overall, the US still has the best system on Earth. Or at least it did up until just after the 2000 election.
Closed AccountOct 21, 2006
In my mind, any election for public officials, without a single piece of paper per voter, is not an election, but a mocking insult of democracy.My countrymen who came before me fought and died for representation during in the birth of our nation and during it's darkest hours: The American Civil War. Do not presume to tell me whom my fellow Americans voted for by a printout of the vote count, prove it to all of us instead by counting the votes!
bamborzledOct 21, 2006
"Easy to count, too, with optical readers."I thought the ballots in Canada were counted by people. I'm also pretty sure that they set up places before elections that people can go and volunteer to be a vote counter.
Closed AccountOct 21, 2006
Thats right no one wants to be accused of wearing a tin foil hat....Just accept and assume that various people arent trying to defraud the election process, with a highly insecure/exploitable paperless voting process.Just assume it can't happen. God I love apathy, because you don't have to think for yourself. That rests my weary mind.
rekraptOct 21, 2006
Boycott computerized voting systems. Stay home on election day. No system is perfect, but it is far easier to hack an election through electronic systems than it is with votes cast the old fashioned way.
meadow113Oct 21, 2006
Take away any chance of cheating at all, and these diebold machines still reek because computers can go down, and then there is no way to recount the votes with no paper trail. Permanent markers, cardboard ballots about the thickness of file folders would be great. It might take longer to count, bring in optical scan machines for that, this is a no brainer.