Jack Cafferty read my email on the air - re: Electronic Voting

[Jeanette in FL]

His question during the 5 o'clock hour was: Should Electronic voting be outlawed? All of the responses were excellent. Mine was the second one read. Woohooo!!

BLITZER: Let's check back with Jack Cafferty for "The Cafferty File" -- Jack.

CAFFERTY: Wolf, the question this hour: Is should electronic voting machines be outlawed?

There are serious questions about how reliable they are and how tamper-proof they may or may not be.

Mark in Colleyville, Texas, writes: "I'm a software engineer with many years of experience on many different computing and controller platforms. E-voting, as we have it implemented now, should be banned. No self-respecting software engineer implements any kind of software without hard-copy/paper audits. It blows me away anyone would allow implementation of any kind of automation without audits."

Jeanette in Florida: "Jack, everyone is wondering if democracy is at risk because of electronic voting machines. How do we know democracy wasn't already lost in 2000 and 2004? We will never know with certainty that those elections weren't tampered with. Back to paper ballots and hand counting. If it takes longer, so be it. At least we will know our votes counted."

Bobby in California: "Should electronic voting machines be outlawed? No. But they should give out paper receipts as proof of the voter's input."

Jim in Texas: "Jack, this is how to fix it. The electronic vote would tally and then kick out a printed receipt. If Wal-Mart can do this with every sale, how difficult can it be? The voter would then verify their votes were counted and correct. The voter would then insert the printed ballot in a software-free reader, like IBM used in the '50s, to tally the votes. If the tallies didn't balance at the end of the day, there's something rotten in Denmark."

And Sam in Oceanside, California: "How come we can get a paper record for our financial transactions, but we can't get a simple paper trail receipt for the most important right we have as citizens: the right to vote? I will tell you why. The people in power don't want us to."

If you didn't see your e-mail here, you can go to CNN.com/CaffertyFile, and read some more of these online -- Wolf.

[helderheid]

1. CONGRATS Great letter!

[cspanlovr]

2. Your's was the best one. I just knew it had to be a DUr!

[Generic Other]

3. You go girl....

:woohoo:

[blm]

4. You got a great rhythm going in your letter. No wonder he read it.

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[alittlelark]

5. Very Cool! Yours raised more questions that ppl should contemplate.

Very COOL!:yourock:

[me b zola]

6. I heard it!!!!

Great letter, Jeanette! You tied the questions being raised now about e-voting to the past 2 presidential sElections--and got it read on the air!!! :thumbsup:

:woohoo: Jeanette in FL, :yourock: :headbang: :bounce: :woohoo:

[SeattleGirl]

7. Congratulations, Jeanette!

Your email was great!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

8. Rec #10 for an excellent job Jeanette!!

Bustin with DU pride!!

:pals:

[MissWaverly]

9. Miss Waverly gives a kick

for a great job, thank you for reminding people about the 2 stolen elections.

:-)

[KT2000]

10. good going!

:applause:

[Eric J in MN]

11. Cool. NT

NT

[karlrschneider]

12. I saw it! Way to go! Mine showed up on the website but he didn't read it

on the air. :D

[Jeanette in FL]

22. Here's Karl's from the website. WTG, Karl

Let's make this simple: Would you do business with an ATM that didn't give you a paper receipt?
Karl, Wagoner, Oklahoma

And thanks to all of you for acknowledging my email that Jack read. What a feeling.

[w4rma]

13. Good analysis. As a note, we need *paper ballots* not a "paper trail".

We do *not* need paper receipts because then certain buisnesses will require you to show your receipt for who you voted for in order to keep your job, or certain groups of people will offer other types of bribes if you show them your receipt for who you voted for.

Paper ballots. Paper ballots. Paper ballots. I cannot stress the fact that our ballots must, themselves, be paper.

[texpatriot2004]

14. How cool is that! Congrats! And thanks. No transparency =

No Democracy!

[QuestionAll...]

15. why can't voting numbers be like ATMS....

and as secure.
would have been my question, maybe I'll ask it some day to someone who give a flying fuck.

but really.
why .

[BeFree]

18. Why?

Because they know that as things progress ever closer to the edge of total government control over every facet of our lives, people will begin to get upset and vote the bastards out!

Therefore, the way to ensure that the government gets and keeps control is to control how the votes are counted. That's why.

But you already knew that, didn't you?

[cybildisobedience]

16. Congrats...

Great job -- and thanks for taking the time to make your voice heard.

[NanceGreggs]

17. WAY TO GO, JEANETTE!!!!

:yourock:

[spanone]

19. Good work, watched hiim read it!

:hi:

[judaspriestess]

20. Congrats

You are a star now, in all seriousness, congrats on an excellent email

[sendero]

21. Great job..

... these letters that get published and aired are invaluable to achieving our goals. Good work!

[oasis]

23. Excellent.

[Libby2]

24. Great job!

[Carni]

25. I heard that yesterday!

Congrats!

[CoffeeCat]

26. You rock, Jeanette!!

Stating a powerful, succinct idea---in one or two sentences--is an art!

You did VERY well.

I really liked how you questioned the 2000/2004 elections, too!

Kudos to you!! :)

[Just-plain-Kathy]

27. Wow!! How great is that?!

:patriot:

[mom cat]

28. Great job. Thanks.

[Bitwit1234]

29. CNN

I kid you not, have read mine three different times. I bet they were being smart alec when the read the one when they asked the question about the bush assassination movie. I said Americans did not want bush to be killed...Look who was waiting in the wings...cheney.