Is anyone concerned about a paperless vote?

Answer 1

I am extremely concerned. It's insane to me that most of these systems do not build in some sort of paper trail. I think it leaves a great amount of room for voter fraud. And considering that a number of the machines are made by people known to have ties to the Republican party...well, I'm VERY afraid. Plus, the Diebold voting machines can apparently be easily hacked into by someone in the know.

Answer 2

I am deeply concerned about this. Everything has the possibility of being hacked. How can we know for sure that the vote count hasn't been manipulated. Sometimes technology can advance to the point when it becomes dangerous.
I think most people hope that society in general is honest. But we know that is not always the case. So like anything else there is a chance of misuse with electronic ballots.
Brings to mind the saying " A lock will only keep a honest man out"

Answer 3

I'm concerned that we don't have a redundant system in place that allows for a recount that very few can argue with. Yes, I think our system is subject to hacking and voter fraud as well as just losing the information. But, so is a paper system. Remember Florida and the chads scandal. That was a paper system that was full of flaws and lost many votes due to the inefficiency of the system.

Mabye a hard back-up of all votes in all districts before any downloads can occur. That would be an inexpensive and an easy archival system if errors were suspected and/or a recount ordered.

Answer 4

I am very concerned. I see the Democrats using the paperless vote story as a way to challenge voting results. They are getting the story out early so that the election challenge will seem more valid

Similar to the time they contested an election, went to state court, tried to ban overseas military votes, did it all in a Democratically controlled county and still try to use the incident as a slam on the Republicans.

Answer 5

Not too concerned. There are certainly bugs in the system but they will be resolved. We should be working on getting the problems resolved rather than trying to stop them from being used at all. They are here to stay so lets find a way to make them safer than paper ballots. Just for the record, there has been mountains of fraud associated with paper ballots. Why don't We discuss that problem with the panic eletronic voting is getting?

Answer 6

Yes. There are obvious opportunites for electronic voting machines to be tampered with. However, I don't believe that is a good reason not to vote.

You can legally request a paper ballot at your polling place. This is not the same thing as an absentee ballot; it is a paper ballot you fill out on the spot instead of using the machine. I'm hearing people urge everyone to take their camera or picture-capable cell phone with them, and to take a picture of your ballot, or the screen of the machine with your votes selected if you use a machine to vote.

We voters CAN force the powers that be to run clean elections--we just need to provide our own documentation. We can prove where the problems are occuring--or not occuring, as the case may be.

If you vote absentee, remember to check the postage--in my state the ballots are going to cost 69 cents to mail. We are being told they will not be forwarded if the postage is incorrect.

Answer 7

I am very concerned. I will be suprised if it doesn't come out someday that the last two major elections were fixed via electronic voting especially in florida and Ohio.

Answer 8

Yes, I think there is a possibility of abuse and that is all it needs not to be credible. I think in the United States a beacon of democracy we need to assure that all elections are honest, open, and free. Without any question of impropriety.

Answer 9

what makes you think paper was secure or even counted right

Answer 10

No matter what we use there will always be errors.