Comments on: Ohio: No "Sleepovers" For Voting Machines

Citing Security Concerns, Election Official Won’t Allow Poll Workers To Take Voting Machines Home At Night

[oneworldusa]

Sorry for the typo below. ''there are'' not ''their are'' its late.

But, cast your vote early. My district ran out of ballots during the primary. This will be the most historic Presidential election in the US to date. No matter who we are voting for, I think the stastics show recently that nearly 90% of people are just glad to see Bush leaving office.

If you don''t vote, you have no moral right to complain. VOTE!

[oneworldusa]

I prefer the punchcards. There is a trail. There should be exactly as many votes cast at a station as their are people marked off the list. Just be sure not to leave ''hanging chads''.

[siobama]

ENOUGH OF REPUBLICAN CORRUPTION !

DEMOCRATS FOR 2008 !

[coryellco]

you dems just cant stand the fact that bush won fairly and like kerry said "i cant belive were losing to these a-holes" his words not mine he saw the TRUTH

[DawnD13]

I lived in Ohio for 10 years and worked in the legal field, where Jennifer Brunner had an impeccable record as a fair and ethical jurist. She is doing her job very well. We use optical scanners here in Connecticut, but there is no paper trail--the forms go through the scanner and right in front of you, the form is then shredded. I don''t know whether the shredding is such a good idea after all since there is then no "paper trail." In any case, this has been the most vituperative and contentious election I can ever remember and the personal attacks particularly vicious on both sides of the question. Let''s hope that the voters of Ohio use common sense and consider the ramifications of their votes on the future of this country. WTG, Ms. Brunner--keep up the good work!

[vnveteran72]

Neocons learned long ago that Lying wasn''t going to get the job done all by it''s self. They needed an inside track, so they turned to Diebold, and the Criminal Corporate Scumbags came through with flying colors.
Hey, when you don''t stand a chance otherwise, cheating is all you''ve got left.....

[tawpdawg111]

if you get in line to vote before the polls close you should get to vote, a simple, effective and just change. My polling place never has line longer than five minutes. Some in Ohio had long lines. If you show up in time and are faced by unexpected line, YOUR VOTE SHOULD COUNT!

If you show up LATE, however, you cannot join the line and thus no vote. I know all about lines.

How, in this day and age, can we not get the right number of machines in place.

Strange, indeed.

[dnsallday]

In a potentially ominous sign for the presumptive Democratic nominee, a new poll shows Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) trailing far behind G.O.P. standard bearer Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) among voters who identify themselves as racists.
Pundits and pollsters alike have wondered about the role racists might play in the 2008 presidential contest, but the new survey released today was the first concrete attempt to take the pulse of this key voting bloc.
The poll, conducted by Duh Magazine, suggests that Mr. Obama faces an uphill battle in his effort to win the votes of dyed-in-the-wool bigots.
"We wanted to know, why isn''t Barack Obama closing the deal among racists?" said Charles Plugh, editor-in-chief of Duh. "The answer seems to be, because he''s black

[downsteamjim]

The most effective voter fraud that I have heard of used paper ballots for absentee voting. The vote fixers had a copy of the ballot marked for their candidates. The voter was given the fixed ballot. The voter then went in to ''vote'' casting the fixed ballot and pocketing the unused ballot. After leaving the poll, the voter gives the blank ballot to the fixer in exchange for money, wine etc. The blank ballot is then marked and ready for the next voter.

[dnamj]

two points:

1. Finally some common sense out of Ohio. Next they should make sure that nobody is thrown off the voter rolls for having the same name, but not birthday, as a felon.

2. To the people who think banks and ATMs never make mistakes: I have some wonderful real estate for you to buy in Central Florida.

[downsteamjim]

To chalres: Remember Fogleman''s law. An election is fair only if a democrat wins.

[sandy19731]

It makes no sense that billions of dollars are traded around the world every day by computer without error and very little "paper trail" and we have not been able to come up with a voting machine that is as accurate as our local ATM machine. Or as the cash register at McDonald''s come on.....this is ridiculous. Somebody is just not trying. And that would be Diebold.

[chalres-2009]

Here we go again. The Repubs are gone to steel it again.

[blahblahbla5]

If you vote on an electronic voting machine and the votes are tallied by machine (paper trail or not) then you vote doesn''''t count. I work in the industry and it is as simple as that. If the computer tallies the vote then the only affect you have on the election is by exit polling -- which can''''t be off by so much without being suspicious. End of story.

Why does your vote not count even with paper printouts? Because in most states a ''''recount'''' or a random check of the votes literally means to look at the computer-generated tally on the box of votes and verify that the numbers are the same as in the overall list of polls. That''''s what a ''''recount'''' is in many states. Or you have ''''recounts'''' like in Ohio where they put the right number of votes for each candidate in the box then ''''recount'''' that and it matches (go figure).

IF A COMPUTER COUNTS THE VOTES THEN YOUR VOTE DOES NOT COUNT.

[tawpdawg111]

if you get in line to vote before the polls close you should get to vote, a simple, effective and just change. My polling place never has line longer than five minutes. Some in Ohio had long lines. If you show up in time and are faced by unexpected line, YOUR VOTE SHOULD COUNT!

If you show up LATE, however, you cannot join the line and thus no vote. I know all about lines.

How, in this day and age, can we not get the right number of machines in place.

Strange, indeed.

[book54552134]

All these electronic voting machines need to be trashed & if need be, voting should be undertaken using the old, tried & true method - paper ballots.

These electronic voting machines should never have been allowed to enter the electoral process to begin with. Security problems with these machines has become scandalous, & the machines have been shown as unreliable as far as their ability to register & tabulate votes.

Compounding these problems is that there is no back-up system to enable election officials to validate or double-check voting results. Officials must depend on whatever the machine tells them about voting results without any ability to double-check the machine''s validity.

Voting precincts in every State must be made to revert back to more dependable & verifiable methods of recording & tabulating election results regardless of the cost to the States.

The credibility of the American electoral process depends on the trust voters place in that process. Until that trust is restored, the validity of the American electoral process will remain in doubt.

[blahblahbla5]

If you vote on an electronic voting machine and the votes are tallied by machine (paper trail or not) then you vote doesn''t count. I work in the industry and it is as simple as that. If the computer tallies the vote then the only affect you have on the election is by exit polling -- which can''t be off by so much without being suspicious. End of story.

Why does your vote not count even with paper printouts? Because in most states a ''recount'' or a random check of the votes literally means to look at the computer-generated tally on the box of votes and verify that the numbers are the same as in the overall list of polls. That''s what a ''recount'' is in many states. Or you have ''recounts'' like in Ohio where they put the right number of votes for each candidate in the box then ''recount'' that and it matches (go figure).

IF A COMPUTER COUNTS THE VOTES THEN YOUR VOTE DOES NOT COUNT.

[rjso]

Fair elections, what a concept!

[micma-2009]

Unbelievable the kind of shady stuff the neoclowns have been trying to pull!

[aaabee-2009]

There isn''t an election anyone could steal if the votes show a margin too large to fake with one or two swing states. This is why Obama is being trashed so hard, the lies and gossip and whisper campaigns.

The GOP only has to close the electoral margins within those "close race" numbers so that if needed, they can use a swing state to "win" the elections.

Electronic voting machines should have been outlawed. And why don%u2019t all states have oversight? Texas among others, has no oversight of their voting machines at all. What is easier than that. Google, people. The truth is right in front of you.

Paper tickets are verifiable and you can''t change enough, quickly enough to affect a national election without someone catching on and (hopefully) speaking up.

Electronic machines are programmed by humans, can be tampered with from remote locations (not taking them home is so idiotic) and very few people are needed to do the work on huge numbers of machines slaved to a centralized server.

Electronic voting machines hand elections to the enemy. Whose marketing and anti-PR work and propaganda is it that will close the electoral margins? America, who are we being programmed to vote for, and if we fail, who are our voting machines being programmed to vote for?