Believe it or not, I was going to write a post on how I felt positive about my voting experience with the Diebold electronic voting machines. That all changed after I heard about a person smashing one of the voting machines at my local polling station. The smashing frenzy happened about an hour after I voted.
While my local paper is reporting that none of the votes were lost, it just makes me wonder. How safe is my vote? Was the smashed machine the one I voted on? While no voting method is perfect, I just think we can do better than this.
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How are the diebolds? we use avc or something…not bad for me. except i didnt see the questions section and forgot to vote it. and write ins is an awkward too.
They’re nice. The instructions were very clear and the screen was easy to read. You couldn’t miss the questions since you had to at least see them before clicking next.
Ah. Though the voting booth looks identical to the sample ballot they mail you weeks prior, I hadn’t looked at it in weeks! But overall the machine we used was pretty good. Kinda scary though how diebolds can be hacked. Glad how things turned out overall. Especially Donny R calling it quits!
Just the congressman that won in my district was the republican incumbent and the guy is just another bush clone.
The reason people don’t like Diebold is because the head of the company said he’d make sure Bush won “by any means necessary.” Frankly that doesn’t give you a lot of faith in their honesty or ability to provide an honest record, especially when there were sharp contrasts in recorded votes and exit polls that normally had 99.x% accuracy. And of course there are the hacks, the challenges based on machines not actually being tested by the government before installation, software changes AFTER “certification,” and other problems that are very well documented.
The reason people don’t like Diebold voting machines has nothing to do with the ease of use and everything to do with trustworthiness.
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