Why Elections Do Not Matter

[kster]

by Michael Richardson

http://www.opednews.com

Why Elections Do Not Matter

Before you banish me from polite company for asserting elections no longer matter let me acknowledge that they should matter and some do matter. Elections represent the changing of the guard in America. This past election the control in two state legislatures, Pennsylvania and Montana, passed from one party to another by narrow margins in a single district. Meanwhile, the nation waited anxiously for the outcome in Virginia to decide control of the U.S. Senate.

Elections still matter in those jurisdictions where the votes are counted openly and honestly. Elections are important; however, elections where electronic voting machines record or count the votes no longer matter. To be sure, the election "results" will still control who is in office. Candidates will still campaign and money will still be raised and spent. People will still put bumper stickers on their cars and debate with their neighbors. The TV ads will be broadcast, doorbells will be rung, and the news media will dutifully report the outcomes. But the elections with electronic voting machines will no longer matter because the voters have lost the sanctity of the ballot box.

There is a good chance the vote totals will be honest and accurate but the public will never know. They will be told--but they will not know. No one will know. Sadly, technological advances in computer design have crashed up hard against the brick wall of security capability. Hackers, using self-deleting malicious software code, can alter the outcome of an election without detection. The public does not know, and can never know, without handcounting ballots, if the electronic voting machines have been rigged or not.

SNIP.....There is a solution. Take back the control of our voting from the hackers. Hand count paper ballots.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__061203_why_elections_do_not.htm

[deutsey]

1. YOU are meddling in the primal forces of NATURE...and YOU....SHALL...

ATONE!

:evilgrin:

Rent "Network" if you don't get my reference here.

[kster]

3. I can only imagine

I'll put that on "to rent" list. :)

[blm]

2. Paper ballots. Hand counted. Videocameras trained on the counting.

That's all it takes.

[In Truth We Trust]

4. Hand Counted Paper Ballots NOW! K&R Good post Kster

[kster]

5. Hand Counted Paper Ballots, Video Cameras, observers from both parties

come one come all, and witness the vote count, out in the open for all to see. :)