Privatizing our electoral system is wrong, dangerous, and rife with opportunity for fraud
steven heller on diebold via brad friedman...
if we're going to fix this country, we had better get serious about fixing our electoral system... as i posted last week, the evidence of democratic vote undercount and republican vote overcount in the recent mid-term elections is sufficient to warrant an investigation... we can't hope to get our country back on track with this kind of risk lurking in the background... Submit To Propeller
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In my view, Diebold has shown they cannot be trusted to run elections in America. We must not allow a private corporation to run our elections for us in secret, using secret machines and secret software. The only thing secret about our elections should be the secret ballot.
I urge all Americans to insist Congress enact Federal legislation requiring that all voting machines must have a voter verifiable paper ballot, be run on open source software code, be subject to inspection by independent computer experts, and that each election have a random sample ballot recount. Only then will we have a chance of restoring true integrity to American elections.
if we're going to fix this country, we had better get serious about fixing our electoral system... as i posted last week, the evidence of democratic vote undercount and republican vote overcount in the recent mid-term elections is sufficient to warrant an investigation... we can't hope to get our country back on track with this kind of risk lurking in the background... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
11/22/2006
