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Election Reform
In reply to the discussion: Show Me The Source Code Or Throw The Voting Machines Out!!!!! [View all]SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)26. The OP may be in response to NY (I have no idea)
But the problem being discussed has been around for a long time. I'm just happy it's getting some attention.
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I say just throw them out, period. There are better ways. Ones in which people
silvershadow
Apr 2016
#1
I read several years ago about a system they had developed at a university there.
LiberalArkie
Apr 2016
#10
Those machines were designed from the git go to be hacked. That is the only way they would have been
LiberalArkie
Apr 2016
#29
At any time the congress could have mandated secure voting machines (it would be easy to do)
LiberalArkie
Apr 2016
#8
If the revolution can continue long enough to get some people in congress. If the old Occupy
LiberalArkie
Apr 2016
#25
Right You Are! Each month, there are 360,000,000 transactions processed by ATM
truedelphi
Apr 2016
#33
People have never demanded it. There are federal laws about accuracy with financial transactions
LiberalArkie
Apr 2016
#42
do you think these voting machines are also the reason Obama won twice?
La Lioness Priyanka
Apr 2016
#13
In New York 126,000 voters 14% of all Democrats in Brooklyn were purged. That's no accident.
think
Apr 2016
#31
A Republican elections office person has been suspended and an investigation is ongoing.
pnwmom
Apr 2016
#40
They could have voted for their hearts desire if they had registered last October, since he
pnwmom
Apr 2016
#41
foolish to trust any system we the people cannot personally oversee
questionseverything
Apr 2016
#61
while making sure the "output" the machine spits out is possible, not reporting more votes than
questionseverything
Apr 2016
#108
you keep referring to making the count match how many voted, which is ONE step
questionseverything
Apr 2016
#114
i knew no human actually counted the vote...just wanted you to admit it ,thanks
questionseverything
Apr 2016
#140
All the main touchscreen machine types and the Diebold Optical Scans have been hacked in tests.
Hacking_Democracy
Aug 2016
#145
All insiders with access can change the electronic votes, not just the voting machine companies.
Hacking_Democracy
Aug 2016
#147
it was the reporting website that they tried to cover with a "mirror" website with a different
questionseverything
Apr 2016
#109
Did not know this group existed. This primary is so rigged. It is very obvious for who.
bkkyosemite
Apr 2016
#72
In India and other countries with parliamentary systems, voters don't choose candidates
eridani
Apr 2016
#83
I think paper ballot with counting at each precinct is THE only way to go.
MrMickeysMom
Apr 2016
#88
"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide
ish of the hammer
Apr 2016
#89
I believe if we polled Americans and asked them if they could wait until the next day
stillwaiting
Apr 2016
#101