On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:04:38 -0800, Sylvain wrote:

Jay Honeck wrote:

Amazingly (to me) I was the ONLY person in line to choose to vote
electronically, while everyone else in this VERY left-wing area (the
last Republican elected here was in 1957) chose paper -- no doubt
because of all the liberal media gibberish about how the Republicans
were going to "steal" the election by using Diebold's computers...

it is not gibberish that these machine are unreliable, and so easily
hacked that a chimpanzee can do it (as it has been demonstrated); I would
certainly never accept using these pieces of crap to vote -- note: I know
a thing or two about computer science -- and would use paper if given
a chance if only as a form of protest; the sooner these machines are
taken offline and discarded, the better, and one way to achieve this
is to refuse using them.


What was really hilarious (to me) was that the people who voted on
paper were then directed (as always) to feed their ballot into a (you
guessed it!) computer tabulator! I just about died laughing.

except that these voters' votes can be recounted if need be, since
they did leave a verifiable paper trace unlike *your* vote...

There was a machine at my precinct, along with six tables for marking
paper ballots. There was also a guy there to help people use the
machine.

The guy in line ahead of me requested the machine, so I took a paper
ballot. While I was coloring inside the lines, I could hear the
dialog at the machine. When I left, the two guys were still trying to
back out of a Cinese ballot and get one in English. (The guy in front
of me was NOT identifiably Chinese.)

Apparently, once the Chinese ballot was selected, accidentally or not,
you couldn't get of it. It had to be voted. Otherwise, it was an
invitation to voter fraud.

Beta testing? You could have caught THAT with a walk-through!

Don