how can you trust touchscreen voting machines?
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How can you trust a con artist with your money, or trust a paedophile with your children?\n\nCountries with hand marked paper ballots don't have this problem.  Answer me this: Is it better to count the votes quickly by computer or count the votes correctly by hand?  You can't have both, so pick *one*.\n\n"It's not who votes that counts.  It's who counts the votes." - Josef Stalin
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how hackable is it..?? \nhow do i know my vote is even counted..??\nwe went to this crappy mail in voter system and when i go to the post office to pick up my mail, it seems like theirs as many ballots in the garbage as junky wal mart flyers...says something about the system, doesnt it...???
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Something like this perhaps...\nhttp://www.vote-smart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=CNIP9107
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DEPENDS ON THE QUALITY OF THE VOTING MACHINES.\nGOD BLESS
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ballot paper.\na german hacker group just succeeded in editing and copying data from a voting machine:\nhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/10/chaos_calls_for_ban/\nMoreover, the most used american voting machine is produced by a neoconservative republican manufacturer. You decide if you want to trust his impartialness
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They couldn't find the name of the guy in line in front of me on the voter registration rolls, so he signed in as a Provisional voter.\n\nI live in a strongly democratic area, and have never witnessed election fraud of any kind.\n\nI've always voted by marking a ballot with a felt-tipped pen -- no paperless voting; therefore, I'm confident my votes are always counted.\n\nToo bad this ISN'T the norm.
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Here in India we have EVMs, the electronic voting machines which have been used successfully in several general elections.\n\nThe voter has option to vote in by pressing one of  several buttons meant for different candidates. After each press of botton the machine gets locked which can be operated again by the presiding officer to be used for the next voter.\n\nAfter the voting is complete the EVMs are sealed in a particular manner and sent to a dsignated place wich is protected by the administration till the counting is done.\n\nOn a designated date the machines are brought and the seal is opened before the designated political agents of different parties.\n\nThe macine shows all the votes which wrere given to each  candidate.And after collecting information from all centres a candidate who gets most number of the votes, is declared winner.
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You may a good point. Additionally, due to "possible" errors with the voting machines, it is be recommended by both parties to take a camera with you to the polling place. Make very sure that when you make your vote, that it registers the way you voted and take a photo for your own records.\nMost importantly, don't forget to vote.
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There is some deal set up with between the show and the phone companies.\nThe PCs recieve the SMSs, and tally the votes with software after they are validated. This info is passed on to the show which then sums up between PCs (if there are more than one) and a result is delivered either during or after the show.
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Many people are concerned with computerized voting. \n\nThat's why many juristictions are looking at machines with VOTER VERIFIABLE PAPER TRAILS. \n\nVoters are given the opportunity to verify - on paper - that their votes have gone the way they want. Once the ballot is finalized, a barcode is printed as well. A recount can be done by machine (scanning the barcodes) and by hand (reading the names). \n\nAnd, if you're so damned sure about the answer to your question, why are you bothering to ask?
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People you can talk to:\n\nThe voting poll workers, go yell at them to keep an eye on those ballots.  Call often, and get your friends to call them too.\n\nThe local newspapers\n\nGreg Palast, contributing editor to Harper's magazine, he wrote a book about voting problems, he'd probably listen if you sent an email
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It is a computer and computers can be programed to do things. A voting computer can be pre-programed to already have the number of votes already decided. So when you go in to vote, it will look like you are voting for who you want, but it will only LOOK that way and your vote is not counted. Just made to look that way.
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Considering every tally of votes is entered into a computer, Bill Gates’ close affiliation with the Republican Party, the way he became the richest man in the world by allegedly stealing ideas from other people, and how much he hates Democrats, I doubt if every vote is counted.  \n\nPublic casting of votes is too intimidating.  For instance my mother always tells my stepfather she’s voting Republican and then votes Democratic (has for years now); privacy is an important aspect of allowing people to vote how they wish and not how someone wants them to vote.\n\nI do believe we need a better system of keeping track of the votes and not count on Windows ran computers to keep track for us.  \n\nIf you really want to do some research on the subject, here are a few leads: Thomas Edison, his voting machine, his affiliation with a man named Rev. Samuel Laws, the New York Gold Exchange, and the invention of the ticker tape; General Electric (formally Edison Electric and the first company ever listed on the New York Stock Exchange) and Jack Welch former CEO of General Electric which has a great interest and investment in Microsoft; the Diebold Black Box conspiracy theory, the Ohio elections and how they all relate to one another.  \n\nUnfortunately there’s a bunch of research between the subjects, but I’ll give you some more hints and a few web-sites to start out with.  Edison’s parents were anti-American and fled to Canada; Laws was imprisoned during the Civil War for not pledging his allegiance to the United States and Edison lived with Laws.  Elihu Yale, opium, the CIA, Yale’s statue stands in front of CIA headquarters, the Skull and Crossbones, Bones, Germany, and Emanual Kant all tie together.  \n\nJack Welch was grilled during a Congressional hearing about MSNBC releasing the election results in the Florida 2000 elections before they had even been counted and witnesses say he jumped up and down clapping his hands when Bush was declared president.  There’s a lot there to swallow, but if you take the time to do the research, you’ll get full of how corrupt our system is and what the Republicans hope to accomplish in the end.\n\nSystematic is an understatement. A lot of the information is buried pretty deep and since the time I originally did my research a few years ago, a lot of the information has been removed from the web.\n\nThink of it as big chess game and we're just the pawns.\n\nGood luck!
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There is one thing for  sure. There should always be a paper vote. There is no way to verify results without one.  Do not use a ballot with chads, just a plain piece of paper. with a hole punched in it. That eliminates the BS we all suffered during the 2000 election. Next, the ballots should be counted right there,  With representatives from both parties present. Not allowed by law to be moved. And finally, All voters must present a voter I.D. That would resolve most voter fraud.
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This article says they can easily be fooled.  If so, they do not work well:\n\nhttp://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s585792.htm\n\nOf course, the technology has probably improved, in the last 4 years.  Still, I remain skeptical about prospects that an automated system might be reliable; not generating false matches nor mismatches.
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In every race there are mistakes made in the vote counting. Either a machine malfunctioned or ballots were miscounted. It just happens. And when a vote is as close as these two are, it is just natural to check for those mistakes.
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we use electronic voting machines in ga...sorry!