AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE KNOWS E-Vote can be rigged!!

[LittleApple81]

I wonder how they know so much about the possibility?
Note: This woman also writes for he Wall Street Journal.

Observers Rush to Judgment in Caracas
By MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY
August 20, 2004; Page A13
When Jimmy Carter went to Cuba in 2002, Fidel reveled in the photo-ops with a former U.S. president. Mr. Carter seemed to think he was heroically "engaging" the Cuban despot. But in the documentary "Dissident," celluloid captures something most Americans didn't see: Castro giggling sardonically as Mr. Carter lectures the Cuban politburo on democracy. That foreshadowed what happened when the media splash ended and the Nobel laureate went home: Dissidents he went to "help" today languish in gulag punishment cells.
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The problem was that the "observers" hadn't actually observed the election results. Messrs. Carter and Gaviria were only allowed to make a "quick count," that is look at the tally sheets spat out by a sample of voting machines. They were not allowed to check this against ballots the machines issued to voters as confirmation that their votes were properly registered.
If there was fraud, as many Venezuelans now suspect, it could have been discovered if the ballots didn't match the computer tallies. The tallies alone were meaningless. The problem was clear by Tuesday but it didn't stop the State Department spokesman Adam Ereli from chiming in. "The people of Venezuela have spoken," he proclaimed.
Mr. Carter marveled at the huge turnout on Sunday. Venezuelans, who have been voting two-to-one against Chávez in opinion polls, waited in absurdly long lines to cast more meaningful votes on electronic machines. But did the machine really record the vote as registered on the paper ballot?
According to experts, it is relatively simple to tamper with encryption codes in electronic voting machines. American Enterprise Institute resident scholar John Lott says, "You can easily write a program that tells the voting machine to record something different in its memory than what it prints out on the receipt that is to be dropped in the ballot box."
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There is some speculation that Messrs. Carter and Gaviria threw a veil over a gross deception on the grounds that it will prevent further violence. But Americans have a right to expect a sterner approach from the administration of George W. Bush. State's endorsement of this referendum without a fair audit is a sorry betrayal of not only the Venezuelan people but American ideals. It is tantamount to yielding to terrorism. Observing Washington's supine reaction, Chávez will not hesitate to escalate his efforts to restore authoritarianism on the South American continent.

http://www.petroleumworld.com/SunOPF082204.htm

[Cleita]

1. Good find.

We need to get this out there.

[cybildisobedience]

2. GREAT find....

think our old friend at the American Enterprise Institute, "objective" CNN political analyst Bill Schneider, can be persuaded to pay attention to this issue now.

Thanks for find this and posting...

[Mistress Quickly]

3. I think a lot of people

on both sides of the aisle dislike the computer voting.

For good reason.

[Cleita]

4. Honest Republicans, Libertarians and Greens should

be concerned as well, because if one side can do it, so can the other.

[Pallas180]

5. Uhmmm. something's wrong here. this country/cia/dimson tried

to overthrow Chavez.

When the petroleum world reports that the Venezuelan people did NOT
want Chavez --I wonder if the office of OSP - General Poindexter and
Rumsfeld aren't distributing their disinformation press releases.

the article is not about the voting machines...it's about
"Chávez will not hesitate to escalate his efforts to restore authoritarianism on the South American continent."

[Eloriel]

6. It doesn't take an expert to realize any first year -- actually,

first semester -- programmer can make the computer print one thing and record another.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

7. My thoughts exactly...

It would be incredibly easy to do and with all the out-of-work programmers we have in this country due to outsourcing, I'm sure they can find someone unethical enough to do it.

[ParanoidPat]

8. At least 1 member, Norman Ornstein, has been on record since 2001.....

......See this MS Word document. www.secstate.wa.gov/elections/doc/report_text.doc :)

The section on Auditing on page 10 is interesting. :evilgrin:

[DeepModem Mom]

9. kick