Do you have any updates on the testimony of the Programmer Clinton Eugene Curtis [http://www.clintcurtis.com/] and any impacts this may be having?

Thanks.

1.) The Mexicans in California might, just might feel disenfranchised when voting for our next President.

2.) The ‘Dead in Chicago’ will turn over in their grave, voting for a Republican and not a Democrat really, those NAZI SOBs. Or will it continue as it has for the last 100 years?

3.) Our Paper trail with mail in ballots will become obsolete, think of the feeling of negelect in Oregon, where as many as 20 ballots have been delivered to a single family residence.

4.) King County Public Employees will lose a lot of over time, because they won’t have to recount the votes until a democrat wins. ( You need to live in Washington to understand).

5.) All the New Yorkers retired in Florida won’t really be able to see the screen and since that generation is usually afaid of any tech they won’t probably vote any way.

6.) Using the Diebold machines will stimulate the economy every two years, after all throwing such an expensive machine into a river is going to add up quickly. This would of couse be bad for the stock market, unless the machines are made in China then watch out!

7.) This will be a great excuse to get both the United Nation in trying to rig our elections. I can see it now a ‘Oil for Votes’ program, Kofi (A Muslim) probably has other children in need of a fortune. We need to think Globally while have others rape our country.

8.) Jimmy Carter can once enter into the lime light. His two last moments were with the Haitian DictatorJean-Bertrand Aristide, the Socialist in President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. But then Jimmy said he and Idi Amin had the same view on human rights. It’s better than pretending to build houses for the poor.

anyone notice that MOSt of the higher elected officials, DIDNT live in your state?? They werent RAISED anywhere near you, but they got the job? AND then THINK they know your city or state, and HOW its supposed to be run??

Some larger, richer districts with vocal activists opted for the machines with paper trail and are paying for the machines themselves. The smaller, poorer districts (white and black) are having a harder time getting them, so they have gone to court to force the goverment to force Diebold to provide tham free as well. They won’t be done before November, but the case should be settled before the 2008 elections.

I love working the polls. And I used to listen to the hard core activists bitch about no paper trail and they would refuse to use the new touch screen without the paper trail ballots. But in the district I worked in the June primary in California, we had gone to the added paper ballot trail, and not one of those activists refused to use them…..in fact they had nothing but praise for them. By the November elections all of California is supposed to have the touch screen, with paper trail in place.

I just never want to see internet voting. That’s when the real corruption will begin.

There is another company that maked voting machines that do just that, print out a paper copy that the voter can see to check. It is not necessary to have the person sign their ballot, just give people the ability to view their ballot before they put it in the traditional ballot box.

If one or two say their ballot is wrong and they made a mistake (it happens), they can correct it. If a lot say there are mistakes, you know its fraud. Then add a safeguard where random districts are required to hand count their ballots to compare the results with the electronic tally before an election is certified.

The reason that the paper alternative machines are not being used is of course because they are more expensive.

Optical Scan FTW!

How is it possible for anyone, who hasn’t been in a coma for the last fifteen years, to not see that computer voting booths are a hacker’s dream? I swear to God, the representatives from blue states are braindead. And the representatives from red states are gutless for refusing to stand against the idiocy insisted upon by the braindead.

There is no perfect solution. But, I agree with Davick, they should let C.S. grad students across the country have at these machines and let them find the vulnerabilities. Make a challenge out of it and they will find the flaws and new ways to make it truly secure.

The only bright side I see in implementing these touch screen voting machines is that it took away the left’s enthusiasm for internet voting, I hope.

The key of course is to leave a paper trail and not solely relying upon electronic record keeping. I don’t understand why this is such a difficult issue to resolve.