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The State of Electronic Voting In the 2008 US Elections
Geek Satire writes "Voting works only if you believe your vote gets counted accurately. The 2008 US elections have avoided many well-known problems of the 2004 and 2000 elections, but many problems remain. O'Reilly News interviewed Dr. Barbara Simons, advisor to the Federal Election Assistance Commission, to review electronic voting in the 2008 US elections, discussing the physical security of storing and maintaining election machines, the move from electronic back to paper ballots, and why open source voting machines don't necessarily solve problems of bugs, backdoors, and audits."
Let's analyze what open source voting machines can't solve: bugs Can't solve. They still creep up, and the ability to immediately deploy a fix - possible without help from the original developer - just doesn't compensate for that. backdoors Can't solve. Like bugs, they still creep up and despite the ability to immediately address problems without consulting the original provider, you can't guarantee security. audits Can't solve. Letting everyone see the code to analyze potential backdoors is such a major security risk, because once exploited, they can't be dealt with (see: backdoors)
You are dense, and it was not a joke. Nor are election machines stored in church basements and volunteers garages.
Being black isn't going to stop someone from being president. Being so old you can barely move and having cancer numerous times means you probably won't see the end of your first term and leave Americans with a overly religious under educated bimbo.
Calling someone Grandpa McCancerFace isn't nearly as bad as coming back home from war to your disfigured wife and cheating on her so I have very little sympathy for the guy nor do I care what his supporters, who may find that offensive, think.
Is because the democrats won the election. Had the election gone the other way, you would be hearing stories 24/7 about: voter fraud, intimidation, rigged machines etc.