BBV - Study: Voters trust electronic voting

[govegan]

From the article:

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- One in five voters will cast ballots electronically in the November presidential election, and the vast majority of them are confident their vote will be recorded accurately, according to a poll released Tuesday.

A lobbying group whose members include manufacturers of the controversial electronic voting machines, released a survey that found 77 percent of registered voters were either "not very concerned" or "not concerned at all" about the security of election systems.

and .....

Computer scientists say the electronic systems are so vulnerable to software bugs, hackers and equipment malfunctions that they should be scrapped and replaced with machines that provide paper records of every ballot cast. Despite reassurances from equipment makers, at least 20 states are considering legislation to require a paper trail.

On Wednesday, the newly created U.S. Election Assistance Commission will conduct the first federal hearing on electronic voting. Academics, county and state election officials, and executives at equipment companies such as Diebold Inc. are expected to testify about the systems' security risks.


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Right! I am sure they used their own electronic systems to count the surveys as well.

What a load of CRAP!

(although support for the idiots in the WH surely gives one pause about the reasoning capacity of many voters)


http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Electronic%20Voting%20Study

[liveoaktx]

1. Ask those same people how often they have patched their Windows software

or had their computer crash or gotten a malicious virus through an accidental email. Can they say that they entirely trust their operating system, don't believe it to be vulnerable to viruses, etc? If they do NOT, why in the world would they think yet another computer system is foolproof?

[fearnobush]

2. This such Fu*king horse shit. It's A GOP polling firm!!!!

How earth can the fucking AP print this crap, un-b-fucking-leave-able.

Republican strategist and pollster David Winston has opened The Winston Group, a new polling and survey research firm in Alexandria, VA. Winston is a former senior vice president of Republican polling firm Fabrizio McLaughlin & Assoc. Also joining the firm is Myra Miller, former political director of the Alabama Republican Party.

I would flame the AP reporter for failing to mention the truth behind this firm. There still gonna try to steal this election folks.

By RACHEL KONRAD
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER


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[hedda_foil]

6. DON'T flame Rachel Conrad, for God's sake.

She has consistently been the only reporter for a major news org to be thoroughly on top of BBV virtually from the beginning. She's on our side, guys.

[truthisfreedom]

3. who cares? 1 in five people are smart? somebody has to be stupid!

[fearnobush]

4. I do

[Just Me]

5. Satire,...right? This is just satire?

Please.

This is a lie, period.

I live among and with "common people" who didn't trust their government BEFORE paper ballots.

This kind of shit convinces me that "studies" and "polls" and "research" are simply failing to encompass that thingy we all live in,...REALITY.

[govegan]

7. From the front page of the ITAA website

"New, ground-breaking study by Global Insight finds that global sourcing strengthens U.S. corporations and builds U.S. jobs and increases real wages. Get the top line findings in the free executive summary, read the press release, check out an analysis of how this trend will affect your state, or order the full report. Or replay a webcast of the March 30, 2004 press conference releasing the study."

Outsourcing jobs is good for you, just like toxic sludge! People just don't get it, I guess. When your job is gone, you don't have to worry because toxic sludge is very cheap and you won't have to do without!

You can even vote from home over wireless internet!!

You probably won't even need a computer. Just think real hard about it. Trust the geeks; they won't make no biG misteeks.

[loftycity]

8. Poll taken on the behalf of Diebold..

[leesa]

9. LOL!! I believe this as much as I believe Bush about, well...anything!

What a joke. Do Republicans have absolutely no ethics?