Voting chaos looms for American election

[DoYouEverWonder]

16 February 2004

The electronic voting system designed for the forthcoming American election is fundamentally flawed and could undermine the trustworthiness of the entire US democratic process, a scientist has told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Paper ballots can be scrutinised to ensure they have not been misread or tampered with but electronic votes recorded only as computer code cannot be checked to see the true intention of the voter, said David Dill, professor of computer science at Stanford University in California.

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"The system is in crisis. A quarter of the American public are voting on machines where there's very little protection of their votes. I don't think there's any reason to trust these machines," he said.




At this point, it is no longer possible to have a fair and free election this November. Mr. Dill is right, we are heading for a major crisis.

[keopeli]

1. link?

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Oops, sorry

Here it is:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=491730

[renegade000]

3. sad how we need to find a foreign source for this kind of story

eom

[dusty64]

7. Ain't that the truth.

While it has gotten some media attention here, its not NEARLY enough. This election I expect to be even more of a confusing mess than 2000 with lots of "results" favoring rethugs against ALL exit polls.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. Yeah, I think maybe the SAS should come an monitor our

electoral process this year.

[david_vincent]

5. Bev Harris has documented elections

in which the results were precisely flipped from the
actual results by the voting machines. They reported the
wrong candidate winning by transposing the votes cast
for the leading candidates.

[T_i_B]

6. Kick

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