I’m not talking about the electoral college and primaries… everyone knows those both suck. I’m talking about the physical system used to cast one’s votes. Don’t hire lawyers to monitor or audit electronic voting boxes; hire people that know stuff about computers. I think everyone, regardless of political party, can benefit from increased voter confidence, and you can only get that through transparency and smarter security practices.
We should have had trained observers – computer scientists, not lawyers! – verifying the integrity of polling data from machine upload through the tabulation of countywide and statewide results. Somehow we neglected the most vulnerable step in the vote-counting process, leaving a gaping hole for error and fraud, casting in doubt the validity of election results in many states.
http://www.ctnow.com/news/opinion/op_ed/hc-solomon1111.artnov11,0,4976462.story
Bush won, get over it… Voting machines operate on the same set of physics as everything else. I have a hard time believing that the machines spontaneously added votes for one candidate or another.
That’s not the point. The point is that the current electronic voting boxes are easily hacked, one way or the other, because of poor programming and closed-source practices. You’re saying that doesn’t bother you?
It absolutely does bother me, but these problems are not what the article is concerned with. It is almost as if people will go to great lengths to find an explaination as to why Bush won, like “Its not possible that that many people actually liked Bush. there must be some other reason for it.”
The guy has opinions and he makes no secrets about it. But he makes a very good point: this shouldn’t turn into a partisan issue. I don’t think fixing the voting systems in the future unfairly helps one party at the expense of another. Unfortunately the majority of the U.S. population is completely uninformed about the problems in the Diebold machines. Read here.
http://www.ifilm.com/viralvideo
Go to this link and click on “Voting Machine”