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Online Voting In 2004 To Require Windows
letxa2000 writes "According to this article at CBS, a trial Internet voting system will be made available to 100,000 voters in 2004--particularly military and overseas U.S. citizens. As an American living overseas I think this is a step in the right direction. But the article also says 'Voters using SERVE can register to vote and cast their ballots from any computer using Microsoft Windows with Internet access.' Why the Windows requirement? Is that really going to make online voting secure?"
George W. is making election stealing an art. First it was the ballots in Florida, and now a Windows(easily hacked) only voting system. That's democracy for ya.
So if Dubya (or McCain, if Republicans will try to put a less-hated candidate forward) won't win, it will be blamed on hackers/crackers/terrorists/pirates/communists/lib erals from the target of the month country and followed with Dubya remaining the president and leading a war against supposed enemies of democratic voting.
Brilliant.
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
Online voting is being incouraged in the US because of its susceptibility to fraud, not its resistance.
Imagine how much easier it will be to rig elections. At the risk of getting into a partisan flamewar, what happened to Florida is suspect for election tampering. I suppose if my brother was the governor of a state, I could get a lot done in my favor. Now with no security, things can be heavily corrupted with even less of a paper trail (it doesn't exist).
These are tools for oppression. These are tools for defeating democracy.
Join Tor today!
You're kidding right?
Modern american liberals belive the government should control most aspects of our lives. Certainly doesn't sound like liberty to me.