you know i was thinking how easy and foolproof it is to vote on

[catmother]

the DU. wouldn't it make sense if the whole country had a similar way to vote? you wouldn't even have to understand computers. just vote and "click" to confirm.

[Drum]

1. I'd only try it with a printer attached...

we need PROOF!

[catmother]

4. okay -- the technology is out there. bill maher said one time

that the people who design the slot machines should design the voting machines. they never make a mistake.:think:

[Drum]

5. heh heh heh! nt

[Richard Steele]

2. You and your liberal logic! Why do you hate FAILURE so much? nm

[catmother]

7. oh i love your picture with the coat hanger.

:scared:

[Richard Steele]

15. Feel free to pass it around; that's why it's there! nm

[uppityperson]

3. with paper trail only.

[catmother]

6. i'm sure the technology is out there -- like a receipt at an ATM.

[uppityperson]

11. Saw a Diebold van at my bank last yr, asked about paper trails

the person said they were trying to make less paper for everyone. I think he misunderstood me.:eyes:

[SoCalDem]

8. easy and foolproof....IF you trust that DU Admins

don't have the program set to a pre-determined "result"..

[catmother]

9. there's gotta be a way to keep it honest.

:think:

[magneto]

24. heh heh heh...

IF we really WANT it "honest"--rather than "dem" "dem" "dem" "dem"...

:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[ArbustoBuster]

10. I'm a computer guy.

I've been working with computers since the Eighties. Therefore I'm a firm proponent of hand-counted paper ballots. Even the best computer hardware and software can occasionally drop data. And losing even one vote is a failure to live up to the principles of our Constitution.

Although anything would be better than the closed-source, Republican-funding, coded-by-lying-scum software that Diebold and their ilk put out.

[catmother]

12. my husband has you beat. he's been working with computers

since the 60s. i'll ask him. you're probably right. :shrug:

[ArbustoBuster]

18. Your husband has my deep respect.

Those programmers and hardware gurus who are from the generation before me are the savviest and best computer professionals I know.

[catmother]

20. he's been with a major computer company for 36 years. before

that a year or 2 at JC Penney. right now he has skills that very few people have, but he still worries about outsourcing. it was amazing back then -- computers taking up whole rooms, tape drives, lots of noise.:eyes:

[magneto]

13. great idea!

It would give me a chance to vote a couple of dozen times...

:evilgrin:

[catmother]

14. no you can't. did you ever try on the DU? i did accidentally --

thought i hadn't answered the poll -- it said something like "you already voted".

on edit: i just went back and tried it. said page could not be accessed "you voted already".:dilemma:

[EFerrari]

16. When that happens, do you ever say "Sorry!" out loud?

I do.

lol

[catmother]

19. no. but i do yell at the tv when bush speaks.

:patriot:

actually i've had to stop myself from throwing the remote at the tv. :hide:

[EFerrari]

21. There's a remedy for that! Just say out loud to Agent Mike:

"Where's bin Laden? If you had a real job, you'd go arrest Bush right now."

It makes me feel much, much better.

:)

[EFerrari]

17. Well, if there's a problem, how do we do a recount? n/t

[catmother]

22. SCOTUS might not allow a recount. look what they did in 2000.

what are they capable of now?:puke:

[EFerrari]

23. That's a good point. Maybe something more concrete

than vapor votes would be a good idea.

Then, at least they'd have to burn our ballots before they disappeared them.