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1) http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/evoting.ars
2) http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Voting_machine
These electronic machines leave no paper trail by which vote verification or audit can take place.
There is no way for the voter to know his vote was correctly registered and no way to verify the count when it's done.
The following incidents were related in the Washington Post: "In Georgia, voters found that when they pressed the screen to vote for one candidate, the machine registered a vote for the opponent.
Avi Rubin, technical director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins and co-author of the report said, in India, the ruling party has proceeded with automating the electoral process uniformly nation-wide - in a democracy of over one billion people, and few resources to challenge results.
According to the Post, "Rubin said, insiders could program the machine to alter election results without detection. All machines had the same...

2007-09-16 17:49:27 · 4 answers · asked by Robin A 1 in Politics & Government Government

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Well, there are good candidates on both sides this time...so hopefully, no one will be desperate enough to "steal" it like The Idiot did.

2007-09-16 17:54:33 · answer #1 · answered by s p 4 · 0 0

Guess what? There's no way for a voter to know if his vote was correctly registered with a paper ballot either. This whole anti-electronic voting bit people are doing is a combination of technophobia and pathetic whining because their party lost an election.

2007-09-17 00:58:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Still better than booth capturing

2007-09-17 16:00:59 · answer #3 · answered by praveen s 2 · 0 0

The system cannot be hacked and the election is always credible.

2007-09-17 00:57:32 · answer #4 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 0 1

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