USA Voters:Do you trust the voting infrastructure in your area?Do you believe the results are/will be correct?

Question

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

http://www.hackingdemocracy.com/

Answer 1

Heck no!!! The Banana Republic of FL is a great example. We had " hanging chads" in 2000 so we went paperless, then in 2004 during early voting, when people hit the review button before casting their vote, they saw it switch before their very eyes. Broward County has the most Democratic voters in the state and the people saw their votes switch from Democrat to Republican. I remember seeing the story on just ONE T.V. station there and it survived only 1 news cycle, after that it disappeared, including the video footage
The new Governor, recently signed into law that there should be a paper trail but even then I am skeptical

Answer 2

Voting infrastructure is fine around me. It is problems with infrastructure that make me very much in favor of the Electoral College. If we just went by the popular vote, then a state that was 80% one party would have a chance to stuff ballot boxes and there might not be enough opposition to catch them.
At least now, if a state is largely Democratic or Republican, the other candidate doesn't have to spend time or resources there. And those of us in Illinois (or elsewhere) don't have to worry about another state stealing the election. Yes, something like Florida in 2000 could still happen, but it is limited now to the close states.

Answer 3

Southern Florida was bad during 2000. Actually the whole state was, throwing away ballots because they "thought" the voters were felons. Well guess what? They weren't!

Voter machines are easy to put a undetectable virus in and when it is asked to print the results, it spits out the garbage! MIT proved this as well as another person in Florida who was asked by the Florida Speaker of the House to write a program to do just that! And he did!

I hate paperless. Too much chance of corruption, and they try every election! The Repubs jammed all the democrat phone lines on election day in NH in 2000 so voters could not be given rides to the polls. He is still in jail! He was a Republican big Whig, the party chairman here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3hUPP_bdOo

Answer 4

I have worked in several Federal elections since 1982, and watched the technology evolve from Votomatics and punch-cards, to computerized touchscreen platforms as we see them now. In Nevada, we were one of the first states to require a paper trail, yet I still do not trust the entire process. It used to be that every poling station, every precinct, and the entire counting process was monitored by civilian volunteers who observed the whole process from setting up to the actual counting. No any more! Once the paper tape is spooled up into the touchscreen platform, no one can prove to me where it has gone, or who is in charge of making sure that it is the SAME as the cassette that is downloaded and "counted" after the polls close. This is why I quit working elections. As a Christian, my conscience won't let me knowingly be part of a national falsehood. There was nothing wrong with those Votomatics in Florida. They weren't cleaned out after every election, that's all! They were full of the chads punched from the cards used in the previous elections! Would your toilet continue to work correctly if you never flushed it?

Answer 5

I helped run a precinct on the 2006 midterms, and can say I pretty well trust the system in the county where I live. It's cost some wasted money though. My county purchased computers to run paperless voting at every precinct around 2000, now, under public pressure, they've scrapped that whole system and gone back to paper.

Answer 6

After George and Jeb Bush's last effort, nobody in their right mind could EVER trust the voting infrastructure in ANY area or, for that matter, believe that the results are any where near correct! Even the black boxes stuffed up!

Answer 7

NO.