Blogged by Brad from the road…
Remember in the summer of ’06 when citizen Election Integrity advocates from the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project (IBIP) discovered that Chicago’s voter registration system was hackable, and allowed for access to voters’ private information, such as Social Security number etc?
Looks like a similar thing has now been discovered in Pennsylvania, where their online voter registration system has now been taken offline after it was found that anyone was able to access other voters’ registration information.
We can’t even do online registration securely, and yet Democrats have been talking about actually voting by Internet?! There is, apparently, no bad voting idea (touch-screen voting machines, “paper-trails,” vote-by-mail, now Internet voting) that Democrats aren’t all too willing to leap at before bothering to look.
Of course, where Democrats fail with often the best of intentions, Republicans often aim to “fail” in the first place with such systems. We’re still not sure exactly which of those is worse. Either way, there seems to be plenty of failure to go around these days. Luckily, there’s nothing important coming up for voters in Pennsylvania anytime soon.
After years in the high-tech investment community, I have come to a deep and abiding belief:
People want technology to make everything better. Even in the face hard evidence, I have heard inventors, entrepreneurs, and customers (rarely investors btw) say that this technology would only be used for good.
This is why your blog is on my daily reading list. Debunking is good.
The people that want it for electronic vote tabulation devices are wrong, and it’s our fucking god given duty to protect them from their own stupidity.
I repeat my argument here.
http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/73/71732.html?1206058654
and I am the Phillip Caine that posted that message.
Yup! All over our local talk radio station today…
The only solution is paper ballots with a good set of rules/procedures making sure all elections have integrity.
Cost is not an issue. Stop with the illegal wars, and there is plenty of money to take care of this.
Was the missing $2.3 trillion lost on 9/10/01 ever found? I’m sure with a good piece of change like that we could have paper ballots.
CBS News
The War On Waste
Jan. 29, 2002
Defense Department Cannot Account For 25% Of Funds — $2.3 Trillion
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/29/eveningnews/main325985.shtml
Brad, yes you!
If you want to know whether it is worse to have your votes mishandled by ineptitude or by malice afore thought…just look at where we are as a country right now. This state of affairs is a direct result of the Republican party’s malice afore thought in Florida 2000 and AGAIN in Ohio 2004. Your comment is the result of your typing ability outrunning your (whatever ability). It is this willful blindness that has entrenched the Republicans to such an extent that we may never be free from their plans of world domination.