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"Harry Hope" |
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01 Jan 2008 07:23:43 AM |
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States Question Electronic Vote Machines. |
From The Associated Press, 1/1/08:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-voting-machine-mess,0,3031271.story
States Question Electronic Vote Machines
By GEORGE MERRITT | Associated Press Writer
DENVER -
With the presidential race in full swing, Colorado and other states
have found critical flaws in the accuracy and security of their
electronic voting machines, forcing officials to scramble to return to
the paper ballots they abandoned after the Florida debacle of 2000.
In December alone, top election officials in Ohio and Colorado
declared that widely used voting equipment is unfit for elections.
"Every system that is out there, one state or another has found that
they are no good," said John Gideon of the advocacy group Voters
Unite.
"Everybody is starting to look at this now and starting to realize
that there is something wrong."
The swing states of California, Ohio and Florida have found that
security on touch-screen voting machines is inadequate.
Testers have been able to disable the systems and even change vote
totals.
Florida's "hanging chads" in the disputed 2000 Al Gore-George W. Bush
election exposed the imperfection of paper ballot counting and helped
lead to a $3 billion government initiative to bring voting into the
digital age.
The Help America Vote Act of 2002 effectively required that states
have electronic equipment in place by 2010.
There are no documented cases of actual election tampering involving
electronic voting machines.
But in tests, researchers in Ohio and Colorado found that electronic
voting systems could be corrupted with magnets or with Treos and other
similar handheld devices.
In Colorado, two kinds of Sequoia Voting Systems electronic voting
machines used in Denver and three other counties were decertified
because of security weaknesses, including a lack of password
protection.
Equipment made by Election Systems and Software had programming
errors.
And optical scanning machines, made by Hart InterCivic, had an error
rate of one out of every 100 votes during tests by the state.
"I was surprised," Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman said
Friday of the failures his office found.
"It's an awful position to be put in, but I feel strongly it's
important that this equipment be secure and accurately count a vote."
Now some states are turning back to paper -- in some cases, just weeks
before primary elections.
California, Ohio and Florida have chosen to use scanning machines that
count paper ballots electronically.
In Colorado, which has spent $41 million in federal grants on
electronic systems, many of the state's nearly 3 million registered
voters -- and the county officials who conduct the voting -- don't
know what their elections will look like in 2008.
Coffman and Colorado's clerks and recorders are in a dispute over
whether to use mail-in ballots or cast paper ballots at polling
places.
All fear time is running out.
"We look at each other and go, 'We have used this equipment in three
elections. Why did it get taken to a test board and get decertified?'"
said Debbie Green, who heads the Colorado County Clerks Association
and is the clerk and recorder of rural Park County.
"There are some counties having elections in January and February and
they don't have any election equipment."
Vendors of the electronic voting machines warn against a rush back to
paper.
It can take two years to put a voting system in place, and overhauling
a system just weeks before some states hold presidential primaries
will invite a new round of problems, they say.
______________________________________________
Election Day, 2008 promises to be a wild scene
Harry
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| User: "Friendly Xenu" |
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| Title: Re: States Question Electronic Vote Machines. |
01 Jan 2008 11:20:55 AM |
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Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
From The Associated Press, 1/1/08:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-voting-machine-mess,0,3031271.story
There are no documented cases of actual election tampering involving
electronic voting machines.
That's *****. Verified reports of Republican vote fixing was
routinely reported during all the past elections since 2000, not
only on Diebold and other Republinazi company machines but also on
paper ballots with the fascists throwing out Democrat votes en mass.
In Colorado, which has spent $41 million in federal grants on
electronic systems, many of the state's nearly 3 million registered
voters -- and the county officials who conduct the voting -- don't
know what their elections will look like in 2008.
It will look like another act of Republinazi treason, obviously.
"We look at each other and go, 'We have used this equipment in three
elections. Why did it get taken to a test board and get decertified?'"
said Debbie Green, who heads the Colorado County Clerks Association
and is the clerk and recorder of rural Park County.
Because we've had seven years of Republinazi terrorism and treason
and it's time to actually _vote_ for the next Christian terrorist.
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Traditional Christian Family Values:
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/12/29/2007-gop-adulterers-hall-of-fame-nominees/
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| User: "Mamamia" |
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| Title: Re: States Question Electronic Vote Machines. |
01 Jan 2008 07:28:52 AM |
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In article <omfkn35jo9v5iosmjq52rm1que4sch7jdc@4ax.com>,
Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
From The Associated Press, 1/1/08:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-voting-machine-mess,0,3031
271.story
States Question Electronic Vote Machines
We have banks that have electronic access to bank accounts that is
virtually totally secure. They calculate money balances, withdrawals,
deposits, all totally accurate. And yet we cannot devise a voting
machine that is accurate? It's another of those "something's rotten in
Denmark" deals, IMHO.
--
"I don't separate my faith from my personal and professional lives."
"Iraq is a battle in our generational, ideological war on terror."
"I will expand the army and increase the defense budget."
--Mike Huckabee
How about it? Want more war?
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| User: "phhfffft!" |
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01 Jan 2008 01:01:54 PM |
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On Jan 1, 5:28=A0am, Mamamia <replyt...@thenewsgroup.purtyplease> wrote:
In article <omfkn35jo9v5iosmjq52rm1que4sch7...@4ax.com>,
=A0Harry Hope <riv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
From The Associated Press, 1/1/08:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-voting-machine-me...
271.story
States Question Electronic Vote Machines
We have banks that have electronic access to bank accounts that is
virtually totally secure. They calculate money balances, withdrawals,
deposits, all totally accurate. And yet we cannot devise a voting
machine that is accurate? It's another of those "something's rotten in
Denmark" deals, IMHO.
--
"I don't separate my faith from my personal and professional lives."
"Iraq is a battle in our generational, ideological war on terror."
"I will expand the army and increase the defense budget."
--Mike Huckabee
How about it? Want more war?
Yes, somethings rotten, especially since those secure bank ATM's are
made by Diebold, the maker of the voting machines that have more back
doors than a chicago speakeasy. The voting rights act was a scheme to
mandate the use of machines under the pretense of accessibility for
the blind. There is a revolving door between Registrar offices and
Diebold/Sequoia sales people. Here in San Diego, the Diebold rep who
sold the county ten thousand machines, was hired as Registrar of
Voters. First thing she does is buy five million dollars more of the
Diebolds, just ahead of the State de-certification.
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