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CBS News Technology Analyst Larry Magid Talks To Some Experts Worried About E-Voting

[jjp735i]

What problems with no paper trail or fixed voting machines? Oh you might be thinking of those "extra" votes Bush received in several Ohio counties. Well, they were not considered a problem with the Diebold machines used there. No one has ever explained were those "extra" votes came from. It never happened it seems.

[gmcnally2]

Airboatboy-
Very interesting, but not well supported. Would be interested in seeing the sources for that information.

But it goes to show that if we can renew our vehicle registration online, we should be able to vote. There is no reason we cannot have an on-line vote. (Other than it is bad for business). We can do secure payroll and banking on-line, but not voting? That is ridiculous.

Fire everyone in Washington, and we will vote on-line for legislation ourselves. No more voting for broken promises. We can vote directly for the laws themselves. We are supposed to be the ones being represented, now we have the technology to go direct to each American. While it may be true our current system of electronic voting is flawed, there is no reason to stand for that as it can be fixed, and there can be a private record of every voter stored locally for any investigations into fraud. Can you imagine what this country would be like if we could actually vote ourselves out of all the corruption of Big Business in Washington? No more laws designed to protect Big Pharma, or to give huge tax breaks to Big Oil, or to deny the implementation of renewable energy because no one is getting rich off Americans.

I believe in electronic voting, just get it right. Let me vote directly for the laws in question, not representatives who say one thing and then bow to big business for campaign contributions.

[alphaa10-2009]

ELECTRONIC MACHINES FAULTY, DEFRANCHISE AMERICAN VOTERS

Despite the aftermath of Florida 2000 election fraud and passage of the Help America Vote Act, the act helped nobody but voting machine manufacturers with billions of taxpayer dollars for shiny new voting machines.

The machines, themselves, are still not ready for prime-time and consequently the electronic voting fraud issue never disappeared. As state after state has called the accuracy of electronic voting into question, Diebold and other voting machine manufacturers have been put on notice by state officers, and some states have ended their contractual dealings with Diebold.

Now, it also happens all the major voting machine companies are owned by... Republicans!

In remarkable testimony, Florida computer programmer Clinton Curtis said the voting machines with which he worked easily can be sabotaged, yet leave no evidence of tampering. The machines can be programmed, Clinton said, to flip the results of a close election by a formula guaranteeing the GOP will win.

See www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEzY2tnwExs

[alphaa10-2009]

Despite the aftermath of Florida 2000 election fraud and passage of the Help America Vote Act, the act did not help anybody but voting machine manufacturers with billions of taxpayer dollars for shiny new voting machines.

The machines, themselves, are not ready for prime-time and consequently the electronic voting fraud issue never disappeared. As state after state has called the accuracy of electronic voting into question, Diebold and other voting machine manufacturers have been put on notice by state officers, and some states have ended their contractual dealings with Diebold.

Now, it so happens all the major voting machine companies are owned by... Republicans!

In remarkable testimony, Florida computer programmer Clinton Curtis said the voting machines with which he worked easily can be sabotaged, yet leave no evidence of tampering. The machines can be programmed, Clinton said, to flip the results of a close election by a formula guaranteeing the GOP will win.

See www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEzY2tnwExs

[alphaa10-2009]

Poster "ucntfoolme" is apparently easily duped by his own party, and an all-too-willing water carrier for the National Review Online-- a GOP, Bush-leaning e-rag run by Bill Kristol, himself. Kristol, an early cheerleader for Bush and Iraq, has a record of disastrous prognostications.

Said the NRO, "Being a senator is no immunity from this statute - as any Republican senator would find out in a hurry if he dared to pull a stunt like this during an Obama administration."

Now, surely, the NRO itself understands enough of the rule of law to become a little sheepish about accusing a political opponent of "treason" on whatever specious argument it spins.

The GOP smear machine is desperately short of ammunition this election, and has attacked Obama by every means except the truth. How is this smear different from all the other yarns it has spun?

Clearly, lies never gave pause to Bush-- or McBush.
At this very moment, a GOP/McBush team is in Alaska, trying to derail the Troopergate investigation into Sarah Palin. Their tactics are so arrogant, they have angered even McBush supporters in that state.

[airboatboy1]

Google "20 amazing facts about voting in the USA". See what you think.