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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?"
In 2000, Gore tried to steal the election by trying to get the Florida vote counters to count voteless ballots as Gore votes.
If Gore is involved with this next election in any way, look for "ELNARGE PEN1S" and "Home Loan Now!" spams to be counted as Gore votes.
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.
Look, I know this is Slashdot, and we all love Linux and hate Microsoft, but let's be realistic here. Apache just isn't ready for mission-critical enterprise level operations like this. This is a BIG DEAL. We're talking about electing the leader of the free world here, not serving the goatse photo.
For this kind of thing, you need a secure server. If the code for our vote server is open, then anybody can hack it. Great, we just elected Osama president because some terrorists hacked the Linux vote server. I know a lot of people will respond to flame me, saying that couldn't ever happen because Muslims don't have computers or some racist garbage like that, but it's just not true. I think there are a lot of "hackers" out there who would be more than willing to help them. Remember, Linux is a european operating system. A lot of 'them' have it in for us, and I don't think they'd hesitate for too long if an opportunity came for them to show us up. We need to keep our voting system American and secure. I love Linux as much as the next guy, but I gotta go with Microsoft security on this one.
Consensual sex is boring.
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.