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Re: Question for the Conservatives out there
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Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:26:19 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
> Well, when I first mentioned the hypothetical, it was *my* hypothetical, and now
> that the powers-that-be are addressing it, I'm becoming more concerned. My
> reasons for this are several:
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> 1. Special elections tend to favor the Right wing, due to the
> fact that Conservatives are (generally) more easily mobilized
> for voter turnout at off-schedule electiosn
> 2. The Supreme Court, which would likely be dragged into the
> adjudication of the election's results, has been demonstrated
> already to be very friendly to Bush re: election results.
> 3. The fact that Tom Ridge and John Ashcroft hit the stage with a new
> "be afraid of everything/no specific information" every time an
> inconvenient piece of news arises against Bush makes me fear that
> some kind of scaremongering is almost certain
> 4. Diebold, which heavily favors Right-leaning interests, holds an
> unprecedented and mysteriously un-scrutinized level of power in
> the upcoming election, and the need for "fast and reliable"
> electronic voting methods may be presented as all the more vital
> in a tense and dangerous election-day environment
> 5. Additionally, if there's a largescale power-outage or disruption
> of internet security, Diebold is vulnerable in a way that
> conventional hanging-chad ballots never have been. And if 10 or
> 100 or 1,000,000 pro-Kerry votes are lost due to the resulting
> "technical difficulties," what will be the recourse?
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> While I'm at it, why does anyone believe that a so-called "paper trail" will
> improve the veracity of digital voting machines? It seems obvious to me that
> anyone who knows how to program one of these machine can certainly rig it to
> give a false paper receipt. And even if such a fraud or glitch should occur,
> what happens? Are all e-vote ballots declared void?
Interestingly, it appears that the GOP has decided that e-voting is so
unreliable that it's encouraging Florida Republicans to use their absentee
ballots instead.
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/07/con04321.html
So this is all becoming less and less hypothetical as we go along. Hmm...
Dave!
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| (...) I've been against e-voting from very first moment I heard about it, because the closer it gets to being done over the internet, the closer it gets to the point where either a hacker can directly tweak the results, or a timed virus can prevent (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Well, when I first mentioned the hypothetical, it was *my* hypothetical, and now that the powers-that-be are addressing it, I'm becoming more concerned. My reasons for this are several: 1. Special elections tend to favor the Right wing, due to (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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