Activist Warns Upcoming E-Voting To Be A

5 Jul, 2004 at 3:32pm ET Article published in Tech

Ambushing registrars and tracking down executives at their homes and offices, a literary publicist has uncovered conflicts of interests and security flaws inside the companies that make electronic ballot machines.

Searching the Web and poring over newspaper clippings, Bev Harris has unearthed obscure arrest records, ties to conservative political groups and other embarrassing secrets of senior executives at voting companies. Her conclusion: there will be so many problems with the more than 100,000 paperless voting terminals to be used in the November presidential election that the fiasco will dwarf Florida’s hanging chad debacle of 2000. “We have a train wreck that’s definitely going to happen,” Harris said. “We have conflict of interest, we’ve taken the checks and balances away, and we know the votes are already being miscounted fairly frequently. This is going to be huge.”

If there are questions about the accuracy of the voting machines we should definitely get the bugs ironed out before another Florida debacle like 2000. -KF

Source: eWeek

Comments

5 Jul 2004 ~ 3:34pm Thrax As long as Mr. I-invented-the-internet, or his DNC buddies don't show up, we shouldn't have another Florida!
5 Jul 2004 ~ 5:46pm csimon LOL ...yeah right!
If it involves politics then it must be crooked!

I once heard that every politician who serves 4 years in office should serve 10 years in jail!!! Speaking of which ...I wonder when Edwin Ewards is running again?
5 Jul 2004 ~ 11:59pm KingFish Why would he have to run? He already is running things from jail....

KF
6 Jul 2004 ~ 12:03am tefleming

Thrax wrote:

As long as Mr. I-invented-the-internet, or his DNC buddies don't show up, we shouldn't have another Florida!

That sounds more like an autocracy to me than a democracy...

Perhaps at least this time, the co-chair of his campaign won't be the person primarily responsible for counting the votes. (Katherine Harris was the Co-Chair of the Bush 2000 Campaign in Florida.) Fun with Flash
6 Jul 2004 ~ 12:16am csimon

KingFish wrote:

Why would he have to run? He already is running things from jail....

KF

so true!
6 Jul 2004 ~ 2:10am Nomad

tefleming wrote:

That sounds more like an autocracy to me than a democracy...

Perhaps at least this time, the co-chair of his campaign won't be the person primarily responsible for counting the votes. (Katherine Harris was the Co-Chair of the Bush 2000 Campaign in Florida.) Fun with Flash

Looks like someone saw Fahrenheit 9/11.
6 Jul 2004 ~ 7:56am deepsea There is almost as much truth in 9/11 as there is in the Alpha Gore's claim for inventing the internet.
6 Jul 2004 ~ 8:40am Linc We all have different political ideas. Let's try to stay focused on the news at hand.