Forum Post: A demand that 99% can agree on... voting machines with paper trails!
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 10, 2011, 3:35 a.m. EST by imrational
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One demand that we should add is requiring that voting machines generate a papertrail and be easily audited on site and afterwards to check for errors and tampering.
This demand should be added for the following reasons...
- It will help fight tampering of our elective process.
- It is something that 99% of people would agree with, therefore, it is something that would have a high degree of success of passing.
- it would help avoid the future illegal fiascos like the SCOTUS ruling in Florida after the Bush/Gore election.
I agree. I recently watched a documentary where someone confessed that electronic elections, even presidential ones, can be rigged. Don't rule out the possibility just because it sounds too sinister.
There have been several news stories on this subject. Voting machines in Ohio were set up in a way that hacking the results would have been easy. In fact, the GOP webdesigner, who was going to testify about voter fraud, died in a plane crash, a short time after his attorney requested protection for his client due to death threats from Karl Rove.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3885913/George-Bush-aide-dies-in-plane-crash.html
Here is an article about how the Diebold voting machines could be hacked with no traces left (they do not utilize a papertrail). https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/16960-Researchers-Demonstrate-Diebold-Voting-Machine-Hack.html
Holy s*it! "Death threats from Karl Rove" made me laugh. Seriously, though. This is bad.
Yeah, when I first heard about the story, I thought... "oh, it's just conspiracy theory bullshit". Then I read the one paragraph story that was buried in CBS's newsfeed. Yup, it was legitimate and the story was never brought out. Strange that, hunh?
Almost as strange as Sean Hoare, the News of the World whistleblower who cost Rupert Murdoch over 4 billion dollars, found dead in his apartment... with Scotland Yard saying his death wasn't suspicious, but unable to say how he died.
I remember when that happened about Sean Hoare. That was bad. That was really bad.
I gotta say, it depresses me that serious ideas languish on the forum while spamming/insulting threads receive tons of comments.
I'd feel more comfortable with allowing the separate states/counties to determine whether or not they want it done that way. Then we can see what the people say.
Why would they want voting machines that did not generate a papertrail?
LOL, the question in a democracy isn't always "why" but "If".
I completely agree ! !