Activist Warns Upcoming E-Voting To Be A 'Train Wreck'

KingFishKingFish
edited July 2004 in Science & 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

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    As long as Mr. I-invented-the-internet, or his DNC buddies don't show up, we shouldn't have another Florida! ;D
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    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?
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited July 2004
    Why would he have to run? He already is running things from jail....

    KF
  • teflemingtefleming
    edited July 2004
    Thrax wrote:
    As long as Mr. I-invented-the-internet, or his DNC buddies don't show up, we shouldn't have another Florida! ;D


    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
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    KingFish wrote:
    Why would he have to run? He already is running things from jail....

    KF
    so true!
  • NomadNomad A Small Piece of Hell Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    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.
  • deepseadeepsea Lancaster, PA
    edited July 2004
    There is almost as much truth in 9/11 as there is in the Alpha Gore's claim for inventing the internet.
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    We all have different political ideas. Let's try to stay focused on the news at hand. :)
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