“E-voting technology has come a long way since the 2000 U.S. presidential election, when voting equipment problems erased an estimated 1.5 million votes during one of the closest elections in U.S. history,” Robert McMillan reports for IDG News Service. “But progress has zig-zagged. After Congress passed the 2002 Help America Vote Act (HAVA), counties spent billions of dollars upgrading to new electronic voting machines, many of which have now been dumped because they were unusable or, worse still, untrustworthy.”
“California and Florida, for example, have mostly abandoned e-voting systems in favor of optical scan machines where a paper ballot is scanned into a computer, leaving a paper record of the vote that can be manually recounted in the event of an audit,” McMillan reports. “That’s the gold standard, voting experts say: voting machines that use paper ballots that are routinely audited for errors.”
McMillan reports, “And while election observers say that more people will vote on paper ballots using optical scan machines than did in 2004, there is still room for plenty of e-voting glitches this year in a race that could have the highest turnout in 100 years. Here are a few things that could go wrong with electronic voting on Nov. 4.”
What could go wrong:
• Machine malfunction
• Touch-screen calibration errors
• Training problems/Unskilled poll workers
• Human error by voters
• Voter registration database problems
• Malicious attack/Hacking the election
Full article here.
All I know is being an independent, with each passing year I realize I’ll probably never vote Republican again because I’ll never vote along with the people who by and large are spreading far more hate than most people on the left.
Fear and hate are the new foundations of the Republican base. Sadly, the traditional true Republicans are people I could align with but they are a dying breed.
I almost forgot: Of course, we’ll also have to go around screaming “Dems Stole the election!” like vacuous idiots for the next 4 years until the mistake can be corrected, if a mistake occurs:
GOP Election Board members have been tossed out of polling stations in at least half a dozen polling stations in Philadelphia because of their party status.
A Pennsylvania judge previously ruled that court-appointed poll watchers could be NOT removed from their boards by an on-site election judge, but that is exactly what is happening, according to sources on the ground.
It is the duty of election board workers to monitor and guard the integrity of the voting process.
Denying access to the minority (in this case Republican) poll watchers and inspectors is a violation of Pennsylvania state law. Those who violate the law can be punished with a misdemeanor and subjected to a fine of $1,000 and sent to prison between one month and two years.
Those on site are describing the situation as “pandemonium” and there may be video coming of the chaos.
Some of the precincts where Republicans have been removed are: the 44th Ward, 12th and 13th divisions; 6th Ward, 12th division; 32nd Ward, Division 28.
http://townhall.com/blog/g/cf47766b-5a6d-44ab-95e7-ce60631bcadc
I think that by the end of the day, HarshTruth’s harsh truth will be something he won’t like to swallow.
That bile filled spite, along with the first poster’s hate, is one of the reasons I am very frightened of the Republican Party.
No, let the post stay as a monument to human hate, and a reason to vote for someone that wants to bring people together instead of splitting them along racial lines.
I find it funny how the McTards out there think that:
* If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents,you’re ‘exotic, different.’
BUT
* If you grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, you’re a quintessential American story.
* If your name is Barack, you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
BUT
* If you name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you’re a maverick.
* If you graduate from Harvard law School, you are unstable.
BUT
* If you attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded.
* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new
voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you don’t have any real leadership experience.
BUT
* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with fewer than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you’re qualified to become the country’s second highest ranking executive.
* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you’re not a real Christian.
BUT
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you’re a Christian.
* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
BUT
* If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state’s school system, while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you’re very responsible.
* If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family’s values don’t represent America’s.
BUT
* If you’re husband is nicknamed ‘First Dude’, with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn’t register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.
Rahrens,
You Libs only want to “bring people together” when you’re in charge.
Thanks for all of your support and unity under President Bush, you duplicitous scumbags.
Like I said, you reap what you sow.
See the documentary “Democracy Hacked”. Proof of electronic voting fraud by Diebold.
PRESIDENT OBAMA.
And you BETTER get used to it, Cons.
One more thing is yet another who can never debate the facts and has to resort to name-calling and frothy vitriol.
How typical.
Mike F.,
You seem to be confused. Obama is running against McCain, not Palin.
Compare “Foot in Mouth Serial Plagiarist” Joe Biden to Palin if your bleeding heart so desires.
Also, realize that Palin is the future first woman U.S. President. And she’s a Reagan Republican, not a whiny Pelosi Liberal loon.
As a non-US citizen, I’m still amazed by this obsession of using electronic voting machines.
You know how they do it in Germany? Local politicians and officials (mixed parties, so that there’s no foul play) man the polling offices and count the ballots by hand! After that, the results are phoned to the central offices.
And the end result is there four or five hours after the polling offices have closed. And there are 80 million citizens in Germany, compared to 300 million in the US. Doesn’t seem that much smaller to adopt a similar procedure.
“You Libs only want to ‘bring people together’ when you’re in charge.” – One more thing
So true it hurts!
Well creationists and neo-nazies, with a bunch of other extremists, could make alliance and try to kill Obama…
@one more thing
Don’t worry. I think the Democrats are used to your tactics after 8 years of how you treated Clinton.
The leftist Obamatards us are so used to hearing their groupthink regurgitated back to them in the media that when they are confronted by differing viewpoints here (and in rare places like Fox News, Rush Limbaugh) they cannot handle it and scream for censorship in order to to spare their weak minds.
If you don’t like hearing/reading/seeing it, then you simply can’t handle the HarshTruth.
Just because practice avoidance, doesn’t mean that the HarshTruth doesn’t exist.
@Hen,
I hope you are intentionally underestimating the intelligence of readers here. These stories of yours belong at bible school.
The first post is a) Off Topic, b) filled with offensive speech, and c) patently untrue. I guess I can deal with a), and maybe with c), but b) is certainly grounds for removal.
On Topic: the Diebold machines still in use in many districts have been shown to ring up Republican votes when the voter clearly indicated a different choice. Proof of their programming can also be found in the fact that quite a number of districts using them claimed more votes than registered voters! The same machines as used as automated bank tellers, but they CAN’T provide a paper tally?
Damn! If HarshTruth is a typical american… someone should atomize America!
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lol
I hope he’s not… and there still some hope for humanity!
@ Mike F.
You left out:
• If your minister spews racially-motivated invective with which you don’t agree, you are nonetheless guilty by association of not representing American values,
BUT
• If your minister proclaims the End Times are near, and God has told you Alaska is the preserve for his remaining disciples, you are eminently qualified to be a heartbeat away from the command of our nuclear arsenal.
• If you seek to help undo the financial injustice of the last eight years by giving a tax break to the vast majority of citizens who need it at the minor expense of those who have an enormous amount more than everybody else, you’re a socialist for wanting to redistribute the wealth,
BUT
• If you’re a governor that manages a tax increase on a business making ever record profits so that everybody gets a share of the wealth, your a staunch conservative vastly more qualified to run the Senate, or whatever.
I’m also with you, rahrens & Macromancer. I’ve been an independent for several decades, and have voted for both Democrats and Republicans in the past. I have learned to expect some distortions and outright lies during campaign season by both parties. But am so disgusted by the viciousness, bile, hate, spite and outrageous hypocrisy of the core Republicanazis that I can’t vote for a single Republican this year. I remember how many of you partied hearty in 2000, telling Democrats that “paybacks are a bitch”. Laugh some more for us after this election.
If you want to post a response to me One More Time, or HarshTruth, or Hen, I try being a man and not a coward by posting your real name (or names, in the remote possibility that there really is more than one person behind this lunacy). My father fought against facists like you in World War II, and his generation kicked your butts then. ‘Nuff said.
I think most reasonable people should at least be able to agree that:
• McCain is a good man who got screwed by Bush and the economy
• The U.S mainstream media has really gone to pot — they are so blatantly behind Obama it’s ridiculous.
• Because of the failure of the media, we do not know much about Obama and that could be dangerous
• Obama is one of the most liberal and inexperienced candidates ever.
@Jennifer….
Palin will never be president…Americans, even republicans are just not that stupid.
A french radio station CKOI called her up pretending to Sarkozy (that is the president of france as you probably DON’T know). She came off as such a clueless idiot that the whole world now knows what a bimbo and featherweight she really is…..sort of see come parallels with you if i am not mistaken.
President Obama…kind of a nice ring to it.If he was running in Canada, he would win in a landslide
One More Thing = a bleeding asshole conservative
How To Steal An Election:
You wannabe American. Everyone knows Canadians are commies. Your pathetic country couldn’t fight it’s way out of a paper bag.
@ Kevin J. Weise
I think One More Time, or HarshTruth, or Hen, are all the same young kid who is feeling unloved and is only doing this to get attention. Let’s all offer him a hug so he will feel better and grow up to be a good caring person and mac user
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C’mon One More Time, aka HarshTruth, aka Hen….you know you wanna…..
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@ Kevin
Your father also fought against censorship too (which is a basic tenet of fascism).
I may disagree with what has been said by some on this board, but I will defend their right to say it and express their opinion, no matter how extreme.
For any, who cannot handle some extreme talk, and I submit that this is mild, you need to grow a set, seriously.