Saturday, May 15, 2004
Voting Machines
The voting machines issue seems to be one of the more serious issues not recieving heavy play in the media. The close vote of the 2000 Presidential election would seem to make this topic more serious and relevant than ever. It goes to the heart of our democratic system.
Diebold is one of the major voting machine companies. It's CEO has been quoted as saying that he was committed to delivering the State of Ohio to Bush in the 2004 elections.
Blackboxvoting.com has an entire website dedicated to the issue of voting machines. Problems outlined by Blackboxvoting.com include machine tampering, lack of a paper trail, device flaws, etc.
Some places where voting machines have been used report votes that failed to be recorded. Johns Hopkins University computer scientists warn that voting software on some machines can easily be hacked into.
Many Democrats and liberals (rightly or wrongly) don't believe George W Bush is the truely elected President of the United States. There is already a lack of faith in the system to some degree.
With the country so divided and the 2004 Presidential election reportedly very close this issue really needs to be sorted out. We can't trust that these machines work properly and that the vote we cast is the vote that's counted properly. This is potentially a complete undermining of our system.
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Diebold is one of the major voting machine companies. It's CEO has been quoted as saying that he was committed to delivering the State of Ohio to Bush in the 2004 elections.
Blackboxvoting.com has an entire website dedicated to the issue of voting machines. Problems outlined by Blackboxvoting.com include machine tampering, lack of a paper trail, device flaws, etc.
Some places where voting machines have been used report votes that failed to be recorded. Johns Hopkins University computer scientists warn that voting software on some machines can easily be hacked into.
Many Democrats and liberals (rightly or wrongly) don't believe George W Bush is the truely elected President of the United States. There is already a lack of faith in the system to some degree.
With the country so divided and the 2004 Presidential election reportedly very close this issue really needs to be sorted out. We can't trust that these machines work properly and that the vote we cast is the vote that's counted properly. This is potentially a complete undermining of our system.
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