Reply #11: I want proof it WASN'T hacked

[noamnety]

The system right now is like having a salvation army kettle out on a street corner, with no lid, and with nobody supervising it. Bypassers come along and drop money in it, but we don't know how much because there are no receipts. The kettle sits out all night, by morning, we really don't know if anyone took money out, we are just supposed to have faith that everything that people put in is still there, and nobody dipped their hand in, even though we know they could have without us detecting it.

Can we prove nobody stole anything? Nope, not without video or a verifiable audit trail of some sort. But that doesn't mean I have any reason to have faith in the system. To have faith, I would have to believe that every person who could have had access - from random hackers to partisan government officials to company officials that promised to deliver the votes to Bush - is pure at heart. At the risk of sounding cynical, it's hard for me to believe that when some of them are convicted felons who have done time for computer fraud.

We wouldn't leave a kettle out for anyone to dip their hand into, because donations to charities are too important. What does that say about the value we put on our election process?