"Harry Krause" wrote in message
. ..

We have those damned electronic voting machines in Maryland, the ones that
do not provide any printed record of your vote.

I asked the polling "referee" why I should trust these machines to produce
an honest count, and she said, "Well, I feel secure about them."

To which I responded, "What are your credentials? Who are you? Why should
I trust you?" She really had no answers that were satisfactory.




I thought the Democrats demanded electronic voting after the idiots in Palm
Beach could not read a butterfly ballot.

So we spend $4 billion to go electronic and now the Democrats are
complaining about that.

JimH wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
. ..

We have those damned electronic voting machines in Maryland, the ones that
do not provide any printed record of your vote.

I asked the polling "referee" why I should trust these machines to produce
an honest count, and she said, "Well, I feel secure about them."

To which I responded, "What are your credentials? Who are you? Why should
I trust you?" She really had no answers that were satisfactory.




I thought the Democrats demanded electronic voting after the idiots in Palm
Beach could not read a butterfly ballot.

So we spend $4 billion to go electronic and now the Democrats are
complaining about that.

Jim just doesn't get it.......ever....

wrote in message
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On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:40:53 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

Yep - they are called analog lever flip machines. Easy to comprehend,
easy to use and they work every single freakin' time.

Oh wait, that's what we're changing out from - never mind. :)


They don't have a paper trail either.

Ours do in Ohio. After making all your voting choices and then verifying
them the results are printed on a 3 inch wide roll of paper that you have
to approve to finish the process. The paper record is viewable during the
review process and is deposited within the machine.

Harry Krause wrote:
On 11/7/2006 4:30 PM, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 15:26:57 -0500, " JimH" not telling you @
pffftt.com wrote:

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
. ..
We have those damned electronic voting machines in Maryland, the
ones that do not provide any printed record of your vote.

I asked the polling "referee" why I should trust these machines to
produce an honest count, and she said, "Well, I feel secure about
them."

To which I responded, "What are your credentials? Who are you? Why
should I trust you?" She really had no answers that were satisfactory.
I thought the Democrats demanded electronic voting after the idiots
in Palm Beach could not read a butterfly ballot.

So we spend $4 billion to go electronic and now the Democrats are
complaining about that.

Even better - in Hartford, they left off a whole State District -
which just happened to be a solid Republican for the State house. :)



The fact that money was spent to "go electronic" does not mean the job
was done properly.

Rather than whining about it, run for elections commissioner and change
it yourself.

We have Diebold machines in my part of Maryland. They're terrible, and
as dozens of news stories have indicated, they're easy to hack. I think
these machines need to be trashed, along with ALL the others, and that
we need a national design competition followed by open testing for a new
machine that will be used everywhere. There are ways to make these
damned devices properly, and it is necessary we do.

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:35:39 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

We have Diebold machines in my part of Maryland. They're terrible, and
as dozens of news stories have indicated, they're easy to hack. I think
these machines need to be trashed, along with ALL the others, and that
we need a national design competition followed by open testing for a new
machine that will be used everywhere. There are ways to make these
damned devices properly, and it is necessary we do.

Yep - they are called analog lever flip machines. Easy to comprehend,
easy to use and they work every single freakin' time.

Oh wait, that's what we're changing out from - never mind. :)

Yeah, and we should go back to living in caves and making fire with
flint rocks.