Imagine your vote actually counted
April 9, 2006
VALLEY VOICES/Chuck Legge
Imagine you've just voted for your preferred presidential candidate. Now, imagine you have used the Diebold touch-screen voting machine.
Let's imagine further that this machine is not hack-proof. For instance, there's a port in the side of the machine that allows a wireless connection to another computer.
It's also possible to switch the voting total so the loser of a particular race becomes the winner. This means poll results could be manipulated by your brighter-than-average high school senior with a laptop. Let's imagine there's a discrepancy of 100,000 votes between the counts done from district to district and the official state count.
Well, the Alaska Democratic Party doesn't need the imagination of Steven Spielberg to imagine what happened in the last presidential election. For the 2004 election, Alaska contracted with Diebold Election Systems to use its Accuvote machines.
When the votes were counted by district, the total for George W. Bush was 292,267. However, the official state count for Bush was 190,889. That's a difference of 101,378 votes.
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A fluctuation of 101,378 votes is more than a slight glitch in the system. Unfortunately, our state Division of Elections is taking the side of a large, powerful corporation from Ohio at the expense of its own Alaska voters.
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