http://www.time.com/time/magazine/
article/0,9171,1552054,00.html
Can This Machine Be Trusted?
The U.S.’s new voting systems are only as good as the people who program and use them. Which is why next week could be interesting
By MICHAEL DUFFY
Posted Sunday, Oct. 29, 2006
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A woman walked into a polling place in Peoria, Ill. last week and proceeded to use one of the new electronic voting machines set up for early voting. She logged on, went through each contest and seemed to be making her choices. After reviewing each race, the machine checked to see if she was satisfied with her selections and wanted to move on. Each time, she pressed YES, and the machine progressed to the next race. When she was done, a waving American flag appeared on the screen, indicating that her votes had been cast and recorded.
But there was a problem. The woman had not made any choices at all. She had only browsed. Now when she told the election judges she was ready to do it again–but this time actually vote–they told her it was too late. Pressing the last button, they said, is like dropping your ballot in an old-fashioned ballot box. There’s no getting it back.
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NO!
As a techie nerd, I KNOW that these “machines” are a fraud. It’s not a question of where, when, or how.
It’s a strategic finding.
Anything with software is hackable. Anything hackable will be hacked.
Honest elections … … please!
Voting absentee is the patriot’s way of gumming up the works.
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