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41. We are totally insane to have allowed these machines into our voting procedures. INSANE.

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Voting Machines Can be Hacked by Remote Control ...Salon [View all] Kurovski Oct 2012 OP

We need paper ballots and bkkyosemite Oct 2012 #1

I'm so proud that my county (Columbia County, NY) hand counts paper ballots eggplant Oct 2012 #18

I'm glad that you think your paper ballot gets counted, because it rarely does. RoccoR5955 Oct 2012 #33

See this article from BradBlog eggplant Oct 2012 #36

It's good to see RoccoR5955 Oct 2012 #37

is it still legal to ask for a paper ballot, instead of using the machines? Kurovski Oct 2012 #2

The absentees are counted by the same company that makes the hackable machines..... robinlynne Oct 2012 #25

oh god... Kurovski Oct 2012 #28

Wasn't remote. "It was carried out by inserting a piece of inexpensive �alien electronics� jtuck004 Oct 2012 #3

And cameras or zylaphones, or whatever you durn kids take pictures with. Kurovski Oct 2012 #6

Ironically, it is illegal to bring/use a camera when you vote. eggplant Oct 2012 #19

why am I recalling video of voter intimidation? Kurovski Oct 2012 #21

There is a spectacular group called video the vote. they document voting. robinlynne Oct 2012 #26

I meant specifically *in* the booth (recording your actual vote) eggplant Oct 2012 #31

Any IT tech can tell you that Microsoft Net Meeting Submariner Oct 2012 #4

well a big fat 2pooped2pop Oct 2012 #5

this was all discussed at length for years. Many people just claimed Kurovski Oct 2012 #8

in fact, at the end of the article, there is a link Kurovski Oct 2012 #10

yes, but nothing has been done about it. 2pooped2pop Oct 2012 #13

Yeah, I know! that Ricky Ricardo...what a card! Kurovski Oct 2012 #17

Ricky Ricardo? 2pooped2pop Oct 2012 #23

Post 10 Kurovski Oct 2012 #32

We need paper ballots. Surely someone can go to court and get an order for these. McCamy Taylor Oct 2012 #7

sure makes you wonder why the dems haven't taken up the issue 2pooped2pop Oct 2012 #15

We knew 10 years ago that the electronic voting machines could be hacked various ways. RC Oct 2012 #9

Because SALON didn't want to hear it 10 years ago. Glitterati Oct 2012 #12

thank you. I felt like a bleedin' battered spouse for three years Kurovski Oct 2012 #16

Yeah, lots of nefarious things Glitterati Oct 2012 #24

Yup. The only way election fraud will ever be taken seriously, KitSileya Oct 2012 #38

it seems there is improved equipment in Venezeula. Maybe. Who knows. Kurovski Oct 2012 #14

It's not that hard to build a trustable electronic voting device. TheMadMonk Oct 2012 #39

Actually it's worse than that. Most of the OLD methodologies still work. TheMadMonk Oct 2012 #34

Another thing. The software now is propitiatory. It needs to be open source. RC Oct 2012 #40

From Boris Bazhanov's 'Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary' Unknown Beatle Oct 2012 #11

GET OUT THE VOTE, my friends! Kurovski Oct 2012 #20

Romney�s buddies from Bain are connected to Hart Intercivic which makes voting machines... L0oniX Oct 2012 #22

+1000000000000000000 everyone needs to know about Hart Intercivic & the Romney connection flamingdem Oct 2012 #30

The US doesn't need any outside influence to F us up. The US is very capable of RKP5637 Oct 2012 #27

We go through this every damn election and yet the stupidity continues! Damn I RKP5637 Oct 2012 #29

Even though these machines and the programs on them can be hacked. RoccoR5955 Oct 2012 #35

We are totally insane to have allowed these machines into our voting procedures. INSANE. WinkyDink Oct 2012 #41

I can't undersdtand WHY "Transparent, Verifiable Elections" ... bvar22 Oct 2012 #42

Maybe one day we'll know that reason why it isn't all that important to them. Kurovski Oct 2012 #43