"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)There is a public reaction against touch-screen voting machines, machines that we know are corruptible and we know are quite capable of producing results different from those intended by the voters.
The movement against the products of a company like Diebold is a good thing.
Check this out -
centredaily.com: County commissioners approve leasing new voting machines
BELLEFONTE — Centre County voters will cast their ballots using pens and papers — not the current touch-screen machines — in the November election.
A vote by the board of commissioners is still needed to finalize the change, but the Elections Board, which is made up of the three commissioners, voted 2-1 today to recommend the board lease new voting equipment from 2008 to 2012.
The lease of optical scan equipment will cost an estimated $1.8 million spread out over the upcoming four and a half years.
3 comments:
This is a good thing. The machines are easily messed with. Pre-packaged results are always a possibility when the Corps. that produce these things are indeed and fact partisan arms of one side or the other. Stealing whole elections is not a possibility with paper without an enormous number of people being involved at every level as in a totalitarian state as an example. You can steal elections on a spot basis with paper but even then it's not without dangers. The computers on the other hand are easily corrupted. We must remove this temptation from the hands of those where winning is the only option.
Amen to that. The problems are clear. Some of the numbers with Bush in the last election, 2004, were very strange.
When 2006 rolled around, my thought was that the elections would be harder to rig because we're talking about Congressional districts and there's simply less people.
The presidential is the biggee and its got to be real.
If McCain can get within 3% he wins. The Retugs have a 3% handicap as long as were in Diebold country.
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