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In reply to the discussion: Meet the e-voting machine so easy to hack, it will take your breath away [View all]RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)24. Ohio?
Where the election was stolen from Kerry? Using just the type of machines you back?
No. Your ideas to use machines is what got us into this mess, and now Virginia has even caught on. I'll never understand how someone on a democratic board can be so undemocratic and actually support any undemocratic process like using freeper owned machines to count votes..
Please, don't tell me you work in elections in any shape or form.
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Meet the e-voting machine so easy to hack, it will take your breath away [View all]
LiberalArkie
Apr 2015
OP
Same here! Often proprietary code, none allowed to look. It's ridiculous! Way too much
RKP5637
Apr 2015
#26
It's a fucking travesty. I cannot understand how this is acceptable to the citizenry of our country.
Dark n Stormy Knight
Apr 2015
#44
Yep, that's the bottom line of it all, TPTB don't care if we like it or not. n/t
RKP5637
Apr 2015
#47
I'm sure the GOP governors will be buying up the used machines on Craigslist to use themselves
tomm2thumbs
Apr 2015
#9
Paper ballots. And a federally constitutional amendment avowing right to vote.
Dont call me Shirley
Apr 2015
#11
Paper ballots. Hire a few more people to count them, democracy demands a just accounting.
Fred Sanders
Apr 2015
#14
No computers. Pen and paper. Scan with human eyes, record and store with human hands.
Fred Sanders
Apr 2015
#16
people are corrupt that is why it is ussually an insider doing the fraud
questionseverything
Apr 2015
#38
No volunteer counters. Professionals trained by a non-partisan, non-political election commission.
Fred Sanders
Apr 2015
#21
And I forgot...a paid day off for all registered voters on the bi-annual National Election Day.
Fred Sanders
Apr 2015
#30
as i understand it you are saying because a roll of paper was attatched
questionseverything
Apr 2015
#74
Yep, it's a perpetual déjà vu as we wander in the same ruts with seemingly little
RKP5637
Apr 2015
#28
Since no one is interested in fixing it that can fix it, are there any counter hackers standing by
lonestarnot
Apr 2015
#31
URL: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/09/24/us/replvoting600.jpg
blkmusclmachine
Apr 2015
#43
technocrats say that to preserve democracy, we must spy on citizens and count votes in secret...
whereisjustice
Apr 2015
#69