Reply #73: If election processes aren't transparent, they aren't democratic. [View All]

[Cookie wookie]

It doesn't take a computer scientist to figure that out. David Dill of Stanford put it simply: A man sits in the curtained poll booth. You go in and tell him who you want to vote for and he writes it down. Then you're supposed to trust that he recorded your vote as you intended?

That's what we have with computerized voting.

As far as Democrats winning back Congress this election, how is that any proof that all the code in all the electronic voting machines wasn't set to take 5% from the Democratic candidate and add 5% to the Republicans. Maybe enough Democrats got out and voted so that they overwhelmed the fix, unlike 2004. The Republicans won't make that mistake with the machines in 2008, so we better not stake our lives and our Democracy on trusting that it isn't so.