So What: Its Just A Few Votes

[BeFree]

Why is everyone getting all fired up about the voting machines losing a few votes here and there?

There's millions of votes every year, and losing a few doesn't mean much.

With the machines counting, the final results come out really, really fast. At least 6 hours faster than it used too. The count isn't accurate, but maybe the next time it will be.

We should all just relax, trust that they wouldn't use machines that are very inaccurate, and have faith that all the kinks, glitches, and lost vote problems will be fixed after the next elections: surely before 2008, eh?

[American liberal]

1. you're being sarcastic, right?

It's not the machines, per se. It's the machines (specifically Diebold machines) that do not leave a paper trail that are in question. And if you really think "it's just a few votes," you truly need to rent the movie "Unprecedented," which is about the 2000 election and how "a few votes" cost the Honorable Al Gore the election.

Frankly, it's attitudes like yours that scare me more than the machines themselves.

[BeFree]

3. Yeah, sarcastic

It just seems DU is dropping the ball. Here we sit talking about politics and who's gonna run and all that, but where is the passion about how Gore had the election stolen out from underneath him?

I see I found your passionate side, and I congratulate you, American liberal for not letting it slide.

Check out DU's Election Reform Forum, sometime.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=203

[American liberal]

5. OK, then. Just wanted to make sure

And I am in total agreement. Doesn't matter how many awesome candidates we put up if there's no accountability at the polling place!

Thanks for lighting the fire, BeFree. You're OK by me. :)

[driver8]

2. I don't get it...Diebold can make an ATM machine that spits out

a piece of paper, but they can't make a freakin' voting machine that does the same thing??

Also, I am certain that their ATM machines have to do better than a 10% failure rate...why can't they do that with their piece of shit voting machines?

How can people ignore this problem? I just don't get it.

[BeFree]

4. Oh, diebold could do better

But the real money to be made is in getting the right elected.

The ex-great, Tom Delay, was the mastermind behind the diebold paperless vote counters... by shepherding through congress the HAVA law which funneled billions of dollars to diebold. That fact alone oughtta bring down the house, but as you say... How can people ignore this problem? I don't get it either.