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Electronic Voting?


http://www.eff.org/Activism/E-voting/
In New Orleans, for example, several Sequoia e-voting machines broke down on election day, prompting long lines, confused voters, and litigation. In Ohio, a Danaher electronic voting machine inexplicably added 4,000 votes for George Bush. In North Carolina, more than 4,500 votes were irretrievably lost due to a storage problem with the system provided by Unilect. And across the country, reports emerged of systems incorrectly recording their votes.
Approximately one-third of the votes cast in November were cast on electronic voting machines. Most of these machines use "black box" software that hasn't been publicly reviewed for security. Almost none provide voter-verifiable paper ballots to permit voters to ensure that their votes are being recorded as intended. Most election workers remain woefully under-trained regarding potential e-voting problems. Vendor technicians frequently have unsupervised access to voting equipment. Local election officials routinely deny attempts to examine e-voting audit data.

http://www.newstarget.com/002076.html
Bush trying to pull a fast one? It's not fooling bloggers over at DemocraticUnderground.com, who have put together some fascinating numbers showing that a mysterious "5% advantage" goes to Bush only in those states using electronic voting machines. Or, put another way, all the exit polls showed Kerry winning, and the exit polls asked people who they actually voted for. But strangely, the "official" count appears to have been boosted in favor of Bush.
How was it boosted? Read up at BlackBoxVoting.org to learn how electronic voting machines can easily be hacked. And since there's no paper trail -- are we insane? -- there's no record of how the votes were actually cast.

Why no paper trail? What would be so hard about a print out to deposit in a ballot box after the voter has confirmed his vote is correct?

WHY ARE WE AMERICANS ACCEPTING THIS ATROCITITY??????

Why don’t we demand to know that our vote is correct and accountable?

Why to we keep pissing our Democracy away?

There is plenty of evidence of paper ballot fraud, but at least we know about it, with electronic voting we will have no knowledge fraud or any way to confirm your votes. A friend of mine was telling me that in the last Presidential election, using punch card ballots, that he went trough 3 cards before he could punch in his vote. He checked for hanging chads after voting and found his card was not punched completely through. He complained about this and all he got was a new card and dirty looks, like he was at fault.

The last two Presidential elections are proof that your vote may or may not have counted.
And who owns the voting machines?

We here in the Ohio 2nd Congressional District will be voting for a new Congressional Representative on Aug. 2, we can only hope it will be a honest and fair election. I don’t know if I get to use the new electronic machines or not, not all polls have them yet. I already know that I don’t like them because of the lack of a paper trail. We’ll see.

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