Nov. 4, 2008: What could possibly go wrong?

meanwhile in April 2009, South Africa pioneers the use of carbon graphite voting machines which make an indelible mark on a bio-gentically engineered veneer of fiber based recording devices.
 
Garyvdh said:
meanwhile in April 2009, South Africa pioneers the use of carbon graphite voting machines which make an indelible mark on a bio-gentically engineered veneer of fiber based recording devices.
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And spend R3mil on upgrading (i.e. fixing) the IEC website :)
 
As problematic as some of the US systems are, they are far more advanced than the paper ballot used in all our past elections.
Knowing someone who volunteered as a IEC official for the last 3 elections, I've been told that the counting process is manual and in some cases when they lose count, they simply thumb-suck a total based on the thickness of the pile. Scandalous & frightening rumors in a country where there are already feelings amongst certain people that your vote doesn't really count for anything.
 
paper route is suppose to be better because u have something tangible to go back to. Virtual votes are easily created and corrupted at a touch of a few keys..
 
Many voters have complained about faulty touch screens. Now there is even talk of faulty scanners for paper ballots.

Give me a pen, a piece of paper and someone to count my vote.
 
Garyvdh said:
meanwhile in April 2009, South Africa pioneers the use of carbon graphite voting machines which make an indelible mark on a bio-gentically engineered veneer of fiber based recording devices.
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Rofl:D Corruption will always be there so it is two sides of the same coin:(
 
Peder said:
i cannot understand why there are soo many problems if ATM's can WORK properly?

Doesn't make sense?
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There was an investigation, I think by a housewife, who used the internet to gain access to the confidential program code used in the Diebold voting machines. In the end she demonstrated in a live TV show (available on the net) how the vote count could be changed by anyone with the most rudimentary computer knowledge. IIRC, the count was simply kept in an unsecured MS Access database with no audit trail.
Open the explorer, look for the mdb file, double-click, open the count table and elect Mr Bush by changing his total.
Subsequent to that there were a whole lot of congressional investigations, and Diebold and maybe one or two others, lost the contract for the supply of voting machines.
 
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