VOTE FRAUD 2004
Glenn,
Now that Australia has created a workable and fair electronic voting system, I'd say it is now absolutely impossible for the U.S. to ever follow this good example.
We're stuck with a broken system, a scheme that only a Machiavellian like Karl Rove could love, and one more reason that America is becoming the laughingstock of the world as we decline and fall into a corporate black hole of black-box vote-swindle saturnalia.
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wired.com
Aussies Do It Right: E-Voting
By Kim Zetter
02:00 AM Nov. 03, 2003 PT
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While critics in the United States grow more concerned each day about the insecurity of electronic voting machines, Australians designed a system two years ago that addressed and eased most of those concerns: They chose to make the software running their system completely open to public scrutiny........
"Any transparency you can add to that process is going to enhance the democracy and, conversely, any information you remove from that process is going to undermine your democracy."
The issues of voter-verifiable receipts and secret voting systems could be resolved in the United States by a bill
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introduced to the House of Representatives last May by Rep. Rush Holt (D-New Jersey). The bill would force voting-machine makers nationwide to provide receipts and make the source code for voting machines open to the public. The bill has 50 co-sponsors so far, all of them Democrats.
"If a voting system precludes any notion of a meaningful recount, is cloaked in secrecy and controlled by individuals with conflicts of interest, why would anyone buy it?," Quinn said. "At the very least give citizens the right to choose whether they want to use paper ballots ... thus allowing each elector to be personally satisfied as to the integrity of the process in which they are participating."
Quinn, who was working in Chicago for Motorola during the 2000 presidential election, says he is "gob smacked" by what he sees happening among U.S. electronic voting machine makers, whom he says have too much control over the democratic process............
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