E-Voting Undermines Public Confidence In Elections

Jeremiah Cornelius writes "Techdirt columnist, Timothy Lee, hit the metaphoric nail on the head, claiming that e-Voting undermines the public perception of election fairness - even when there is no evidence of wrongdoing. 'In a well-designed voting system, voters shouldn't have to take anyone's actions on faith. The entire process should be simple and transparent, so that anyone can observe it and verify that it was carried out correctly. The complexity and opacity of e-voting machines makes effective public scrutiny impossible, and so it's a bad idea even in the absence of specific evidence of wrongdoing.' Add to this the possibility technical faults, conflicts of interest and evidence of tampering, how long before the US vote is viewed as an electronic pantomime?"

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Re:i've been saying this for weeks

[sgt_doom]

Please ignore the posts which follow, Good Citizen circletimessquare, you are on the right track (although the neocons do appear to be behind it mostly...).

With SAIC controlling the vast majority of domestic surveillance (Number One recipient of NSA contracts, top five of CIA contract recipients, major contract recipient of the Pentagon's CIFA, and, the parent company of Hicks & Associates, the "unofficial" administrator of the Total Information Awareness project), and also having been contracted to do the "security features" for most of the voting machine companies (the formerly known Diebold, as well) the fix is definitely in.

Will we see Obama win the election, only to find John "insane" McCain in the White House? (And please, none of this "war hero" BS, the guy spent less than a full day in combat - surrendered upon his very first contact with the enemy - and a number of returning POWs had some pretty negative stuff to say about McCain's behavior in captivity, but the newsies gave them short shrift as they wanted "to put the war behind them" .......)