I voted on a touch screen in Texas on early voting. And I was surprised to learn there was no paper trail of my vote. And that there was a backup on the votes, but in the same computer that is the touch screen's server.. This doesn't make any sense to me. Have you ever lost all your computer on a crash hard drive and all?
Just because a network is not linked to the internet, doesn't mean that network cannot be tampered, hacked, or changes made. In fact that is exactly is what is going to happen.
Does my Vote Count? Yes for whoever can get the computers to register it. But I will never know for sure that my vote went to the real canidate that I voted for.
2006-10-26 04:03:01 · 11 answers · asked by DAVID T 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
The government can't fix roads but is telling me I should trust their ability to manage an election. I want a paper back up.
2006-10-26 04:05:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your understanding of computers, servers, networks and the Internet seems limited. How would the system be hacked into if there is no outside connection.? Changes or tampering would be easily traced and their are many security levels that prevent this. Use common sense and you will realize that this is a much safer, secure method of recording and tallying votes than a paper ballot. If in the past you voted on paper, how did you or would you trace your vote, know that it had been counted, or gone to the candidate you voted for. Paper is much easier to destroy, change, permanently lose than a computer record that is backed up and recorded practically instantly. A back up in the system would just be a timing delay. It would have nothing to do with an attempt to corrupt your vote.
2006-10-26 04:11:27 · answer #2 · answered by Answergirl 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A paper path is not any insurance of election integrity. Election fraud develop into basically as hardship-free contained in the days of filled pollboxes as some thing that would properly be imagined with digital balloting. the ultimate diagnosis is that that's a commerce off between the idea of a secret polland one hundred% election integrity. that's not conceivable to have both. A secret pollis sacrosanct. So the technique desires to insure integrity in different approaches. It fairly a lot does. besides, the old lever balloting machines that were in use for 40 years did not record a paper path of each and every vote. the in hardship-free words paper develop into the move through hand of the mechanical totals to a vote tally report.
2016-10-16 06:31:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem I have with it is that the Diabold systems have now been reported to have leaked out again (the first time being in 2003). They've come out and stated that yes, this leak could allow someone to cast multiple, simoultanious votes with a single voter card. That scares me! I'd rather have some idiot having to count a chad or two instead of them coming out and saying "Well, actually, we're not sure if your supposed to be Senator or not. We'll just have to go back and vote again, sorry!"
2006-10-26 04:06:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would seriosly doubt that the computers are on a network, let alone have a network card. I think they just have hardrives. I would also think it would be hard to hack into a system that doesn't have a network card, let alone hack into a system that they don't know about. IF elections are to be tampered, it would be by someone on the inside, ie a democrat or republican.
2006-10-26 04:10:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is a great system, and can make election alot easier and better for people.
We see the horrible trouble the paper and the chads caused and in our modern society nothing should be on paper any longer.
As long as the information is saved when the votes are done, they are safe.
And yes your votes counts much better on the electric system since it is not up to a human to know review things with the human error factor.
This scare is merely caused by democrats who will have no issue with it as long as they win, you won't see them and the ACLU challenge the machines in any area they win,
This scare is just one of the 1000's being done to scare people out of voting republician
2006-10-26 04:08:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I agree we should have paper backup it just makes sense to me solely depending on a computer is a disaster waiting to happen anyone who had a computer that crashed know what I am talking about.
2006-10-26 04:13:30 · answer #7 · answered by Ynot! 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree. That is why I like a simple method of voting instead, like putting an x on the ballot in the ballot box.
Brock Maclean
Elections Canada Officer.
2006-10-26 04:07:34 · answer #8 · answered by cbmaclean 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Texas voting is set up to be corrupt! When I called the attorney generals office - elections division - and tried to ask questions on security 4 people either hung up on me or said "that's not my job"
Maddening, isn't it?
2006-10-26 04:08:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your vote never did count. Now they have a better way to cover their own tracks in fraud & you are not covered at all.
2006-10-26 04:06:37 · answer #10 · answered by ChaliQ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋