Re: [CPF0000] RE:

["Alan E." <steelville@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<<| For the record, I totally agree that evoting, as
currently being implemented in the USA, is completely
inappropriate.>>

In a recent municipal "off-year" election, they were using
the first electronic voting machines implemented in our
infamous Miami-Dade County. For the occasion, the Elections
Board Supervisor (from 2000 coverage) was there, and I was
able to speak with him. He told me that the touch-screen
votes, with the verification screens afterward, were the
ballots. This machine did not give me a paper ballot at all.
When I started telling him what I thought about this, he
began his standard response of tested, this & that, blah
blah, but he kind of listened to me. (Aren't politicians
great?)

Now tell us. How reliable is the coding on that machine?
It's an "iVotronic", by the way. How do I personally know,
myself, that my vote counted the way I put it in?

This makes fraud five thousand times easier. We all gawked
at pregnant chads in 2000 because of Florida's Sunshine
laws, that make government activities public. No closed door
counting. I want a method where you can have a recount that
everybody can trust, and anybody can do, and you don't have
to get a programmer or operator to do for you.

I could give you some examples of what I'm convinced were
paper-ballot-election fraud. You want to make it as easy as
"Enter the number of votes you want, and click here"?

Canada got it. All-paper ballots. Anybody, that's any
citizen at all, can observe the voting. And stick around and
watch the counting. At the voting site itself. They get
their totals together, and post them, and call them in. The
process goes up the line. The totals are locally known
publicly at the time they're finished. And there are paper
ballots to go back and recount if necessary.

>>| Hasn't evoting come into existence due to problems with
paper ballots in the first place?| Again, just for
discussion.
|
| Tom Liotta

And that's a very good question, and that's exactly the idea
that the lamestream media gave everybody in 2000. They
pushed into the public mind that we had to upgrade our
voting systems immediately! urgently! to protect our vote!
technology!

What is wrong with that picture? Even those butterfly
ballots were nothing new! Why now? Hmm? This time, but not
before? I have wondered about this big time. It stinks in
fact.

Dave Barry satirized it real good, noting that to solve the
problem, they got a system that everybody has trouble
figuring out! Computers!