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January 13, 2008
Or you could keep your head in the sand
From the time voting machines first entered the election process, there have been numerous controversies. The New Hampshire primary is the latest debacle surrounding these easily rigged elections. Several candidate on both sides of the (same) aisle have called for recounts.
1 - one company provided 81% of all the voting machines in New Hampshire. That company is operated by a convicted drug trafficker AND has been convicted of election fraud.
2 - in the townships using hand counted ballots, Barrack Obama won handily, in the townships using these Diebold voting machines, Hillary won handily.
Clinton (voting machine) 91,717 52.95%
Obama (voting machine) 81,495 47.05%
Clinton (Hand-counted) 20,889 47.05%
Obama (Hand-counted) 23,509 52.95%
3 - Ron Paul received 0 votes in dozens of townships with these machines. So far, with two townships checked, voters have been found that voted for him but were never counted. In townships with hand counted ballots, Paul averaged over 15% of the vote.
4 - dozens of townships had large numbers of votes recorded simply as OTHER.
It is clear that these voting machines are easily hacked and in fact, just like the 2000 and 2004 presidential election, HAVE been hacked.
I say OUTLAW VOTING MACHINES and return to hand counting ballots. Sure, there are still ways to game the system, but it is much harder.
The other step that should change is that it should be illegal for media to declare winners of any election until such time as ballots have been counted and certified.
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Posted by CDogg at January 13, 2008 11:31 AM
Comments
There ARE ways to create a system that would be difficult to hack and much more secure. The problem is the expense to do it would be much higher. In fact, I have a way to do it (in my head) that would be very secure but infrastructure would be a huge problem.
Posted by: Podcast Mike at January 13, 2008 11:35 PM
Do tell. Maybe we could do a podcast about it?
Posted by: Chris Doelle at January 14, 2008 08:26 PM
We should Skype so you can find the holes in my idea.
Posted by: Podcast Mike at January 14, 2008 11:09 PM