Do you trust Diebold to elect our President?
 

Have we really got the glitches worked out of this electronic voting thing?The best part:
Which brings me to this analysis of the situation: You're doing it wrong!

B -- That is funny as hell.

A -- The myriad ways for this to go wrong are *uncountable* (rimshot). Why the obdurate resistance to a PAPER TRAIL is ... beyond my comprehension. We trust ATMs to conduct a transaction (with a small number of errors per many transactions), but the receipt at the end is our (depositor/voter) assurance that the machine did what we want. Why can't I get a receipt of my voting record? Hmm?

sometimes i trust faulty machinery more than The People, so...

That appears to be the GOP's plan.

The electoral college is using these machines? I think they still have to deliver their votes to congress in sealed envelopes.

Of course not.

This erosion of confidence is much further upstream. But you knew that.

This is for all you sore losers who felt the Diebold or some other shadowy organization threw the presidential elections.
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I trust Diebold to do what any good American business would do, and that is to make sure that whoever comes up with the most money wins.

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Bwaahahahahahahahaha!

States rush to dump touchscreen voting machines

...The makers of the machines have offered to buy back the $5000 machines for $1 each... hahahahahahah
Sooo funny! They even quote the same comic as HM.. brilliant.

Typical. Here McAfee was doing its job, dumping votes for the wrong candidates, and everybody gets upset.

I love this part.

Maybe the one thing we got right in Iraq was purple fingers and paper ballots.

Do I trust Diebold to elect our President?

I don't trust our President to sit the right way on the toilet.

What would make you trust electronic voting? Paper receipts? Open source code?

Serious question. This seems to be the inevitable progression of voting technology, we should start figuring out what parameters we want to insist on for the boxes that do the counting.

Paper receipts don't inspire much confidence in me. Maybe because I doubt that enough people would hang on to them to make it useful in case of glitches (intended or otherwise).

Open source code would make me much, much more confident. Open up the machines to the millions of knowledgeable eyes that gave us linux & such, and let them sift it with a fine-toothed comb. The bad people already know how the make the machines do bad things. Open source accountability will force the people in charge to fix the problems.

It's the modern equivalent of having Jimmy Carter sit over your shoulder while you count ballots.

I was always under the impression that paper receipts would be put into a box at the polling station, just like standard paper ballots, to be brought out and counted only if there was a dispute.