“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.
What could possibly go wrong? Obama could be elected! That’s what!
@@Buster
I love and respect Americans but am quite happy being a commie…errr…Canadian.
Don’t forget we burned down your White House, threw a party then went back to Canada to brag about it.
hahahah we still laugh about it today …you wimp.
jake = commie-terrorist loving traiter
I liked the Hen post. The truth hurts.
The Black Panthers are now intimidating voters here with night sticks. You libs are disgusting.
SPEAKING OF KENYA, OBAMA HAS HIS STINKING HANDS IMMERSED THERE TOO…………Obama’s Family Ties to Radical Islam
An observation about the 20years with Reverend Wreight:
Two possible explainations for how someone that was married by Wreight, had him baptize his children, and spent 20 years in his church saing he did not know what Wreight is about:
1. Obama is telling the truth that he did not know-
Conclusion he is a moron and cannot possibly handle the job as POTUS.
2. Obama is lieing about Wright-
Conclusion he is a liar and so is someone to trust
Obamanoids, please pic
@hen and @ one more thing. I think you should get married and lay an egg. It will be one bad mother of an egg. eeessh! Odor Eater!
Meantime ….. Chelsea Clinton for Prez 2012!!!!!
There are some real people here thank God. I salute you MikeF rahrens, MacroMancer and Kevin J Weise. Don’t ever falter against these kinds of cancerous fools. They were probably bottle-fed sour milk as babes.
Finally, in the most technically advanced country in the world, they can send guys to the moon but they cannot protect voters’ rights and count them accurately. I wonder why?
The priority Federal budget item should be to mandate the introduction of modern tamper-proof, ease of use voting machines with a numbered receipt and audit trail. The second budget priority is to provide fresh milk to all bottle-feeders and kill the cancerous mentality at source.
Tahtah and goodbye
In these 10 Democrat controlled cities, more US Citizens have been murdered in the last year
than US Service personnel in IRAQ…so where’s the Democrat outrage?
What do the top ten cities with the highest poverty rate all have in common?
1. Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since
1961.
2. Buffalo, NY (2nd) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since
1954.
3. Cincinnati, OH (3rd) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since
1984.
4. Cleveland, OH (4th) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since
1989.
5. Miami, FL (5th) has never had a Republican mayor.
6. St. Louis, MO (6th) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since
1949.
7. El Paso, TX (7th) has never had a Republican mayor.
8. Milwaukee, WI (8th) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since
1908.
9. Philadelphia, PA (9th) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since
1952.
10. Newark, NJ (10th) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since
1907.
Einstein once said, ‘The definition of insanity is doing the same
thing over and over again and expecting different results.’
It is the disadvantaged who habitually elect Democrats —yet
remain disadvantaged.
‘Poor People have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years,
… and they are still poor.’
Sir Charles Barkley — the Round Mound of Rebound
All democrats speak about how great Obama is, and how Clinton was one of our greatest Presidents. But when you ask any democrat to name 5 things that Obama and Clinton have done that was good for this country and you get the same blank look because they cant name anything that they’ve done, most especially Obama. The reason, because they have never done anything for this country.
So I will put this out there on all these chats, if any Dem can name 5 things that Obama has done for this country I will vote democrat for the first and only time in my life… I dont worry because Dems are lucky if they can come up with 2. its just Democrats are easily brainwashed by the nedia and hollywood, maybe if they put down Star magazine, shut off TMZ, and stopped listening to morons like Barbara Streisand, Bruce Springsteen and Madonna, and actually take a look at what the candidates have done their entire life for their country, it should be obvious that only one man has devoted his entire life to service of his country. Whether you agree with everything he’s done or stands for, it is without question he is the best qualified to lead a nation, not some Ivy league aristocrat who thinks he is our saviour. I mean come on Pillars at the DNC, thats ridiculous, who does this guy think he is?
IN OBAMA WE TRUST: ‘He Is Going To Pay For My Gas And Mortgage’…
Clinton administration strikes a blow for middle America, loosens credit constraints and opens up the American dream to “minorities and low-income consumers”…
By STEVEN A. HOLMES
Published: September 30, 1999
In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders.
The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets — including the New York metropolitan region — will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring.
Fannie Mae, the nation’s biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits.
In addition, banks, thrift institutions and mortgage companies have been pressing Fannie Mae to help them make more loans to so-called subprime borrowers. These borrowers whose incomes, credit ratings and savings are not good enough to qualify for conventional loans, can only get loans from finance companies that charge much higher interest rates — anywhere from three to four percentage points higher than conventional loans.
”Fannie Mae has expanded home ownership for millions of families in the 1990’s by reducing down payment requirements,” said Franklin D. Raines, Fannie Mae’s chairman and chief executive officer. ”Yet there remain too many borrowers whose credit is just a notch below what our underwriting has required who have been relegated to paying significantly higher mortgage rates in the so-called subprime market.”
Demographic information on these borrowers is sketchy. But at least one study indicates that 18 percent of the loans in the subprime market went to black borrowers, compared to 5 per cent of loans in the conventional loan market.
In moving, even tentatively, into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times. But the government-subsidized corporation may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a government rescue similar to that of the savings and loan industry in the 1980’s.
”From the perspective of many people, including me, this is another thrift industry growing up around us,” said Peter Wallison a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. ”If they fail, the government will have to step up and bail them out the way it stepped up and bailed out the thrift industry.”
Under Fannie Mae’s pilot program, consumers who qualify can secure a mortgage with an interest rate one percentage point above that of a conventional, 30-year fixed rate mortgage of less than $240,000 — a rate that currently averages about 7.76 per cent. If the borrower makes his or her monthly payments on time for two years, the one percentage point premium is dropped.
Fannie Mae, the nation’s biggest underwriter of home mortgages, does not lend money directly to consumers. Instead, it purchases loans that banks make on what is called the secondary market. By expanding the type of loans that it will buy, Fannie Mae is hoping to spur banks to make more loans to people with less-than-stellar credit ratings.
Fannie Mae officials stress that the new mortgages will be extended to all potential borrowers who can qualify for a mortgage. But they add that the move is intended in part to increase the number of minority and low income home owners who tend to have worse credit ratings than non-Hispanic whites.
Home ownership has, in fact, exploded among minorities during the economic boom of the 1990’s. The number of mortgages extended to Hispanic applicants jumped by 87.2 per cent from 1993 to 1998, according to Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. During that same period the number of African Americans who got mortgages to buy a home increased by 71.9 per cent and the number of Asian Americans by
46.3 per cent.
In contrast, the number of non-Hispanic whites who received loans for homes increased by 31.2 per cent.
Barack Obama’s Kenyan family to celebrate by slaughtering bulls, chicken and goats:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5082040.ece
Mosseburgers, indeed.
Despite these gains, home ownership rates for minorities continue to lag behind non-Hispanic whites, in part because blacks and Hispanics in particular tend to have on average worse credit ratings.
In July, the Department of Housing and Urban Development proposed that by the year 2001, 50 percent of Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s portfolio be made up of loans to low and moderate-income borrowers. Last year, 44 percent of the loans Fannie Mae purchased were from these groups.
The change in policy also comes at the same time that HUD is investigating allegations of racial discrimination in the automated underwriting systems used by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to determine the credit-worthiness of credit applicants.
Leave the first post up. It simply demonstrates the intolerance and hatred of the extreme right wing. It’s my way or the doorway. That’s all they seem to understand. Reduce everything to a battle of THEIR view of good and evil. That works well for Saturday afternoon B-movie matinées but not in real life. Real life is full of nuance and subtlety.
Sorry to say that “one more thing” just doesn’t understand the process. Life is built on choices. You don’t have to agree with them to appreciate the process. Be glad that you have a choice. Many on the planet do not.
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
– Aristotle
Clearly, “one more thing” fails this simple test.
As for voting, we do it here with a simple paper ballot. They’re counted manually, re-counted if necessary and kept in case additional re-counts in close races are required. The argument of population size is often used as an argument against this method, but it’s simply not valid. Your electoral districts are broken down into smaller polling areas, just like everywhere else. Poll captains/clerks can count the ballots in an hour or less. Each party can appoint scrutineers to oversee the count. No nefarious machines required. No accusations of backroom shenanigans can even be broached in such a system. On election night here (Canada) we know who won within a couple of hours. No need to ask a stacked-court to decide the outcome.
Curtis
Buster sucks the big one.
Canada Sucks!
Who gives a rat’s ass about Canadacommies.
“Canada Sucks!”
“Who gives a rat’s ass about Canadacommies.”
I do and you should too. Maybe we should sabre-rattle and threaten to shut off the water and oil. THAT’S an approach you MIGHT understand. Perhaps we should consider importing and/or selling a lot less than we do from and to the US. Uninformed, under-educated people like you simply do not understand how important and symbiotic our relationship is.
And yes, your insightful comments simply prove my point.
I reiterate:
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
– Aristotle
For your edification and elucidation I’ve included definitions of some of the bigger words:
symbiosis |ˈsɪmbɪˈəʊsɪs| |-bʌɪ-|
noun ( pl. -ses |-siːz|) Biology
interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association, typically to the advantage of both. Compare with antibiosis .
• a mutually beneficial relationship between different people or groups : a perfect mother and daughter symbiosis.
edification |ˈɛdɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n|
noun formal
the instruction or improvement of a person morally or intellectually : the idea that art’s main purpose is to supply moral uplift and edification.
elucidate |ɪˈl(j)uːsɪdeɪt|
verb [ trans. ]
make (something) clear; explain : work such as theirs will help to elucidate this matter See note atclarify . : [with clause ] in what follows I shall try to elucidate what I believe the problems to be |[ intrans. ] they would not elucidate further.
“Who gives a rat’s ass about Canadacommies.”
Technically this is a question, not a basic statement. As such it requires a question mark to be valid. That aside the ignorant comments only lead credence to the thought of Americans who care nothing for the outside world, while maintaining a falsely bloated view of themselves.
Canadians = Backwoods losers
“Comment from: Canadians
Canadians = Backwoods losers”
Spoken like the spawn of siblings.
Canada, a nation of whimps!