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January 10, 2008
Paper Ballots
That didn't take long. The first rumblings of election fraud area already starting - claiming that the results of the NH primary differ dramatically between hand-counted and Diebold-counted counties. [EDIT: A friend pointed this dailykos article out to me which states that NH doesn't use touch screen machines.]
The cover story NY Times Magazine was an article on the current state of electronic voting.
In response, MoveOn (an organization I moved-on from when they wouldn't bloody leave me alone) is making it easy to contact your elected representative to protest the ongoing use of voting machines demonstrated again and again to be unsuitable for the task.
These "contact your congress-critter" things always have a place to add a personal note to their boilerplate - mine read:
It is absolutely reprehensible to move forward with electronic voting in it's current state despite a preponderance of evidence, offered by computer security researchers, that these systems are opaque and easily corruptible.Electronic voting continues to threaten to undermine and remaining faith the voting population may have in the electoral process.
The people of the United States, and the winner of the 2008 presidential election, deserve to not have this specter of doubt hanging over the outcome of an election which dramatically influences the direction of the nation for the coming four years.
If we choose not to make these systems adequately inspectable and secure we have no reasonable choice but to forbid their use in public election.
Posted by dberger at January 10, 2008 11:46 AM
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Posted by: mike b at January 11, 2008 11:30 AM