Computer Experts Fear Fraud in Recall

[elifino]

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/10/6/155608.shtml

As an IT support professonial, I would not trust any computer based voting system which does not have a voter verified paper trail.

[Kelvin Mace]

1. Funny thing is

I have yet to see any techie or programmer, who doesn't work for Diebold, et al, disagree with you.

David Allen
www.plan9.org

Diebold Voting Machines
We vote for you, so you don't have to!

[elifino]

2. Funny thing is

Thanks for the link.

[tom_paine]

3. So does any reasonable person

I would rather mark 'x' in a box,

ANYTHING with a paper trail that makes vote fraud harder.

[seamarq]

4. Exactly...

all these machines need is a printer so one could verify their vote and drop it in the ballot box.

[Padraig18]

5. My suspicion is:

I don't think that they will try anything so blatant as to actually CHANGE the end result of the recall vote; what I think is far more likely is that they will manipulate small numbers of votes in many precincts just to see if they can escape detection, as a 'dry run' for the MASSIVE fraud they plan for 2004.

[papau]

6. 40% of vote will be via punch card and hanging chads!

and given the fraud likely with touch screen voting (we have had such interesting upsets that put in question exit polls - always with touch screens from Senator Hagel's company and friends - and always the GOP winning), the punch cards may be the honest part of the vote.

And with perhaps 50% turnout - 6 million votes - there are already 1.6 million collected absentee votes that will not reflect the Arnold scandals.