Who Cares who Alison Lundergan Grimes Voted For?

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95. agreed

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... Bev Harris said on 4/27/2007 @ 1:50 pm PT...




Point of clarification: King County is already using Diebold, has been since 1998. They are planning to embark on something even worse: A Diebold privacy-theft and vote-switching machine made specifically for mail-in votes.

1) The machines King County wants to buy are the Diebold High Speed Central Count machines. These machines do not tabulate the BALLOT, but instead tabulate a digital photograph of the ballot produced by the scanner.

A feature: The users can, at their option, change the way the digital image is read. This is a FEATURE, not a bug. Right-click the yes and it becomes a no.

2) The machines automatically create directories full of ballot photographs, which I once thought was cool. No more. Because here's Part 2 of the privacy-stealing machine:

The county is planning to buy a ballot tracking system. I thought, at first, that this was a system to put a bar code on the outer envelope that allows the voter to check whether their ballot made its way through the post office. Well yes, but that's only PART of the goodies. It turns out that this same ballot tracking system optionally allows the County to put the ballot tracker bar code ON THE BALLOT itself.

This is already being done, and citizens, upon finding the bar codes ON THEIR BALLOTS in San Juan County, have filed a lawsuit. It's illegal, and the head of VoteHere --- Ralph Munro --- knows that full well, since he used to be secretary of state in Washington. No matter, he's successfully been pushing the development of, sales of, and implementation of vote-tracking bar codes printed on the BALLOT.

Now enter the Diebold image scanner again: No need for someone to sit in the warehouse digging through the ballots themselves to see how you voted, now that the bar code will be on the ballot. Nope, with the Diebold image scanner, this ballot-tracker bar code is photographed right there on your ballot, then neatly stored in a directory with thousands of others, easy to download the whole batch in minutes with a small USB thumb drive.
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amazing to me that more du members do not understand how their rights are being taken from them