Reply #10: No, it is you...

[DubyaSux]

..who is both wrong and ill-informed...

This is the problem. If you were left alone with a GEMS systems, you may be able to change the election results at a district (although highly doubtful). If my 5 year old were left alone with a ballot system, she could change the election results at a district as well.

I am way more informed about this paranoia then you think and it's the reason it makes me so mad. With no election controls, you can't have an election.

You can't be left alone with a GEMS system anymore than my daughter could be left alone with a ballot system. That's not how our system works. But that's how the evoting haters want to frame the issue - disingenuously.

The systems are NOT connected to the internet and have no IP connection at all. The do have a direct connect phone line, much like an ATM machine. I don't see anyone sweating over their bank accounts because of this. It's alomst impossible to gain entry to and very, very difficult to change the results. In fact, audit votes are contained in the database, so any attempt to alter the votes would be obvious and correctable.

Evoting allows people with disabilties to vote in privacy. Evoting eliminates over and undervoting. Evoting CAN give us recounts (no matter what they tell you - they are lying) and a lot faster. Your hatred of republicans is getting in the way of fair voting. Many seem to suggest just because the CEO of Dielbold is a lowlife freeper, so are all his employees, all his competitors, and all his competitor's employees are freepers.

That's not reality. The reality is, Avi Rubin and Bev Harris has used your good nature to make a lot of money selling books and hysteria. They should be ashamed of themselves. I want my mom, who can't see for crap, to enter a voting booth and not have anybody tell her what to do and where to do it. I want anyone with a disability from bad vision to the mentally challenged to have the same opportunity of a secret and accurate vote to have the same opportunity as us who have no problem using any system presented to us.

Too bad some of you don't seem to care about those who benefit from better systems. That would get in the way of good freeper hatred. It sounds like Sean Hannity in reverse.