Florida Electronic Voting

**latenight** · 10-19-2004 02:23 PM

http://wearabledissent.com/101/floridavote.html

**S. Hunter** · 10-19-2004 05:55 PM

Electronic voting is fundamentally flawed in that there is no way for the public to view counts of the votes, or even inspect the authenticity of the voting software. The software is closed source and owned by a company, and not public in any way. We are trusting the government to regulate these machines, but they just pass that off to the companies and as such the companies are free to buy and sell votes as they choose.

**Rogue** · 10-20-2004 09:38 PM

Agreed. plus ten characters

**Inquartata** · 10-21-2004 08:45 AM

So what do we do? Electronic voting is too flawed. Punch ballots are too complicated, apparently. Lever machines have their own drawbacks. Where do we go?

**Rogue** · 10-21-2004 09:30 AM

Clay lots?
Here in OK, we use ballots that one completes the line next to their candidate. Then it is read via an optical scanner. Simple with paper trail.
*Unless the ballot is made from a republican paper company. Then I suppose the could treat the paper with some chemical to prevent the dem votes from being read.

**latenight** · 10-27-2004 11:12 AM

Wow,

This link is a joke guys....lighten up

**telkanuru** · 10-27-2004 11:17 AM

It's a funny joke!

I don't get it. Y'all on the right flip out when you hear the gov't say "It's ok, we'll deal with social security/medicare/healthcare/taxes/anything but the military", but when a biased corperation that has direct and untraceable control over the election of our president says "Trust us", you go, "OK!"

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	Register Help Remember Me? Forum General Fencing Water Cooler Politics Florida Electronic Voting Closed Thread Results 1 to 7 of 7 Thread: Florida Electronic Voting Thread Tools Show Printable Version Email this Page… Subscribe to this Thread… Display Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode 10-19-2004 02:23 PM #1 latenight Senior Member Array Join Date May 2000 Location The Reflecting God Posts 4,095 Florida Electronic Voting http://wearabledissent.com/101/floridavote.html Whatever doesn't kill you, is gonna leave a scar... Looking for a certain Striptease...... 10-19-2004 05:55 PM #2 S. Hunter Senior Member Array Join Date Jun 2004 Location Western PA Posts 399 Electronic voting is fundamentally flawed in that there is no way for the public to view counts of the votes, or even inspect the authenticity of the voting software. The software is closed source and owned by a company, and not public in any way. We are trusting the government to regulate these machines, but they just pass that off to the companies and as such the companies are free to buy and sell votes as they choose. "In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels... But, if I may even flatter myself, that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good; that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated." - George Washington 10-20-2004 09:38 PM #3 Rogue Senior Member Array Join Date Aug 2003 Location Oklahoma, USA Posts 481 Agreed. plus ten characters Benjamin Franklin when asked by a woman, "What kind of government have you given us?" Replied, "A Republic Madam, if you can keep it!" "The Dude Abides" 10-21-2004 08:45 AM #4 Inquartata Curmudgeon Emeritus Array Join Date Jul 2001 Location Somewhere in your nightmares! Posts 33,804 So what do we do? Electronic voting is too flawed. Punch ballots are too complicated, apparently. Lever machines have their own drawbacks. Where do we go? 10-21-2004 09:30 AM #5 Rogue Senior Member Array Join Date Aug 2003 Location Oklahoma, USA Posts 481 Clay lots? Here in OK, we use ballots that one completes the line next to their candidate. Then it is read via an optical scanner. Simple with paper trail. Unless the ballot is made from a republican paper company. Then I suppose the could treat the paper with some chemical to prevent the dem votes from being read. Benjamin Franklin when asked by a woman, "What kind of government have you given us?" Replied, "A Republic Madam, if you can keep it!" "The Dude Abides" 10-27-2004 11:12 AM #6 latenight* Senior Member Array Join Date May 2000 Location The Reflecting God Posts 4,095 Wow, This link is a joke guys....lighten up Whatever doesn't kill you, is gonna leave a scar... Looking for a certain Striptease...... 10-27-2004 11:17 AM #7 telkanuru Senior Member Array Join Date Jan 2004 Location Boston, MA Posts 7,746 It's a funny joke! I don't get it. Y'all on the right flip out when you hear the gov't say "It's ok, we'll deal with social security/medicare/healthcare/taxes/anything but the military", but when a biased corperation that has direct and untraceable control over the election of our president says "Trust us", you go, "OK!" The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated. -Oscar Wilde Closed Thread « Previous Thread \| Next Thread » Similar Threads Fixing Electronic Boxes By Tim McMackin in forum Discussion Archive Replies: 5 Last Post: 05-23-2001, 02:24 PM FLORIDA By alessandro in forum Discussion Archive Replies: 3 Last Post: 04-02-2001, 10:40 PM Fencing in Florida By oiuyt in forum Discussion Archive Replies: 12 Last Post: 03-22-2001, 08:20 AM Posting Permissions You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts BB code is On Smilies are On [IMG] code is On HTML code is Off Trackbacks are On Pingbacks are On Refbacks are On Forum Rules Contact Us Fencing.Net Archive Top All times are GMT -4. The time now is 09:12 AM. Powered by vBulletin® Version 4.1.9 Copyright © 2012 vBulletin Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. Search Engine Optimization by vBSEO 3.6.0 (c) 1995 - 2010 Fencing Net; Fencing.Net, fdn, Fencing101, Epee101, Foil101, Sabre101 are all trademarks of Fencing.Net, LLC. Thank you to Replica Sword Shop for their support.