Am I the only one who distrusts electronic voting?
928853
I agree, where I live we had a choice of hand marked ballot or electric. I chose the hand marked.
758797
I voted on a diebold machine and felt it was safe and accurate.\n\nHowever, if someone really tried and knew what they were doing, fraud could be an issue with those machines. Better safeguards are needed in the future.
872411
Yes.  We had mechanical voting machines for decades.  You disappear behind a curtain and pull the crank to clear the machine when finished moving levers.  I've read those old monsters are the most precise.
736705
CNN is constantly televising the fact that the DIEBOLD machines are too easily manipulated. Democrats (not Republicans), tried to get a Bill in place so that paper ballots could also be used at polling places. To be funded by the Govt. The Republicans squashed it in Congress, overriding it with their majority vote.  The problem of the hanging chads was favored to be Democratic-favored-territory, not Republican, and yet Republicans won in many of those counties. Coincidence?? How about all the missing ballots or overseas absentee ballots that never got counted. Voter manipulation is one of the 14 signs of fascism. We now have about 12 out of 14 in the US. Next time, vote absentee ballot, for the paper trail. I suspect we will have major problems come election day. Then hopefully, something will be done before the 2008 General Election.
765393
Some cities have a voter fraud hotline.  (Fat lotta good that'll do!!)\nRest assured there will be a lot of cheating on Tues. There are no controls in place in most cities. People will do what it takes to win.\n\nI firmly believe that people who cheat in elections soil the sacrifices made by the men and women who fought and died defending the right to vote....and of course the other rights and freedoms as well.
695477
living proof that SOME things are NOT to be trusted to computers! Computers are what caused the flak that the elderly got with the first Bush election. the real problem with that is today's generation under thirty has no patience and wants everything when they want it. voting is too important to be left to a machine that can be hacked or hit with a virus or messed up by a downed powerline or EMP attack. as for the accusations, well politicians tend to be more spoiled brats then two year olds in the back seat. as voters we need to be like proper parents and show them why God gave us a backhand! with pols we do this by writing them, emailing and voting. good luck and peace!\n\nVin\n\nPS the repubs are hyperreacting because all the experts said they were going to get the senate while the dems got congress. ain't the will of the people great???-:)
659318
I don't do that.  I think it makes the whole voting process pointless.
787124
No, I was not personally but my brother who was voting next to me was. His machine repeated pages and they had to get their tech guy who explained he had all of his training this morning try to fix it...
896878
This one REALLY pisses me off.\n\nThat’s all we need a bunch of uneducated voters just punchin' holes in whatever happens to come to mind at the time!!...There is already a problem with people going into the polls with little facts and lots of fiction why increase that? Voting is a privilege in itself.. it is serious and should be taken seriously. What the hell are they thinking???
1168101
right now it seems, none of us... for instance in Florida, we have new computerized voting machines with NO paper trail.  why?  when you purchase something at a store don't you want a receipt?  but for an election there is no proof that i even voted.  wake up america.
773659
Ugh, yes.\n\n\nI recently moved counties and had to re-register. I followed the information listed on my voter's registration card today--to a defunct polling location. It was a high school that is completely under construction--there was no voting going on there at all. Funny that there wasn't a sign or anything directing people to the right place--I had to call 411 to connect with the voter registration office, was on hold for twenty minutes, finally found out my correct polling location--went to vote, mentioned they might want to put a sign up at the other location. They said they had sent out a mailing detailing the new polling location and all eligible voters had received it. Hmmm. . . funny. Not this registered voter. I stuck with it until I found out where I was supposed to vote--but I have no doubt that other people just went back home. \n\n grrrrr.
1130654
Here is some evidence that justifies your concern:\n\nhttp://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen\nhttp://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2006/1995\nhttp://uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/OH/Ohio-Exit-Polls-2004.pdf\nhttp://www.commondreams.org/views06/0330-22.htm\n\nAs for what to do about it, both paper ballots and transparency of voting machine source code are necessary. \n\nThere are also other ways to steal an election:\nhttp://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/06/06/con06219.html\n\nWith so many different methods of cheating, there is no one way to prevent it. What needs to change is the Us vs Them attitude, to an attitude of doing what's best for all citizens.
866964
We don't. It's very possible that the voting system is flawed or is susceptible to hacking and conspiratorial "set-ups".
924988
Good question. \n\nActuallly, the Democrats prefer the old way because THEY'VE BEEN USING DIRTY TRICKS. \n\nThey are scared because they know electronic machines will be more precise and will show that Democrats in the urban areas, the cities, have been padding their votes. \n\nSo, you have it wrong. It's not Bush it's the Democrats who have been cheating for many years. \n\nJohn F. Kennedy won the votes in Illinois based on votes of dead people .
833432
It surprising to how easy it is to steal elections. Can't we get back to counting by hand?
923176
we use electronic voting machines in ga...sorry!
842635
Absolutely yes. I vote every election. That is my debt to all the armed services, past and present.\nWe had the touch screen machines, and it went smooth as glass. In and out in under ten minutes including signing in and everything.