[PAA-Discuss] Verifiable Voting: Boston Globe editorial

[Miklhut at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/19/2006 9:31:27 PM Central Standard Time,  
abrowning at pdq.net writes:

yet six  years after the 
infamous botched election of 2000, vote counters in  Florida and 
elsewhere still can't seem to get it  right.



My feeling:  They don't WANT to get it right.  It is  not an accident.  I am 
for sticking to paper ballots.  There was  enough voter fraud even when we had 
that.  I remember (dating myself)  during the Johnson elections in Texas 
there were many doubts and  accusations of voter fraud and ballot box pilfering.  
Of course there have  been accusations since then but that sticks in my mind 
for some  reason.
 
Truth be known there is NO safety in computers.  Banks  lose millions, people 
hack credit card companies and get into millions of  accounts, state drivers 
licenses, even the Pentagon gets hacked.  Nasa  is constantly getting hacked.  
Safety online is a joke.  People worry  about getting their ID stolen, just 
Google yourself sometime.  It's  ajoke.  We are ALL public information now if 
you use a computer. This  is just another area where no one tells the truth 
about the billions lost  nationally that we all pay for.  Do I want to give up my 
computer?  NO.  But I damn sure do not want my vote entered into a computer.  
 Technology is great but no one has invented a program that can't be  hacked. 
 Just ask any fifteen year old kid, they hack the Pentagon all the  time.  My 
Grandson even did it.  He and his friends used to bring  their lap tops over 
here and see who could hack the most companies in two  hours.  There just 
wasn't much they could not get into.  Stick to what  can at least be accounted 
for, I say.  When you can design a program that  will change the votes, then 
destroy itself and not be detected there's just no  safety in it at all, and that 
is probably a simplistic program compared to what  they can really do.
 
Mikal  

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