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Andrew Pollack
10/22/09

In reply to Voting Machines With Disappearing Logs Finally Under Investigation
These guys make ATMs. ATMs do not miscount. They do not fail to log transactions. They do not do these things pretty much ever.

Interestingly, if I recall, their President is one of the key fundraisers for the Republican party.

Interesting. #californiavotingmachineinvestigation...
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RT100
10/22/09

@Andrew Pollack: oh stop trying to put some dumb partisan spin on it. I don't care who they support, I support democracy, and having everybody's vote count #californiavotingmachineinvestigation...
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Andrew Pollack
10/22/09

@_rt¹⁰⁰: Me too - My point is that we have a company run by an extremely partisan hands-on style manager, with 30 or more years experience leading the world in production of highly accurate and reliable banking machines, who can't seem to make a tamper proof and reliable voting device and who claims making a machine that prints a receipt would be "too hard".

I don't care which side he's on, I smell a rat. #californiavotingmachineinvestigation...
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Sticks Calhoun
10/22/09

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Hah! This is Diebold Election Systems renamed. What a terrible company. One of many things that makes me ashamed of my government. #californiavotingmachineinvestigation...
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jepzilla
10/22/09

@Sticks Calhoun: If I recall correctly, Diebold upper management changed their name and kicked the voting machine group out of the company, for besmirching their name and reputation. #californiavotingmachineinvestigation...
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11thRS
10/23/09

@jepzilla: That's correct. One of the worst moves that company ever made was getting into the electronic voting machine business and doing it poorly.

My dad worked for them for 38 years and at one time (hold your applause Tenacious D fans) worked on the "tube technology" for drive up teller windows.

I'll always remember the day he brought home some photos of a new project the company was working on. They wanted to take ATM machine technology and integrate them with gas pumps, that way you could drive up, insert your card, pump your gas and drive away. I recall my dad saying something how the company won't get into this because it is not what we do well.

The road to profitability is paved with coulda, woulda, shoulda's. Some of those are good, some are bad. #californiavotingmachineinvestigation...
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Stevox
10/22/09

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How f*ucking hard is it to add numbers?! Security should have been the *only* thing requiring serious attention. #californiavotingmachineinvestigation...
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Curves
11/05/08

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God bless engineering students.
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OMG! Ponies!
10/29/08

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Again, I stand by New York's old mechanical voting booths. Gears can't be hacked because the ballot isn't loaded into the machine until it arrives at the polling place and the selection of ballot is randomized.

The only problem with the machines - getting replacement parts. I'll take a fraud-proofed voting machine with that problem any day.
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divideby7
10/29/08

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I still find it funny that West Virginia has more "advanced" voting systems than my old school voting booths on Long Island. I guess maybe not so advanced apparetly. I dunno, the curtain and lever routine work fine for me.....
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OMG! Ponies!
10/29/08

@divideby7: There's a reason that New York fights to keep the old mechanical voting booth - vote security.

Nothing beats a giant freakin' lever.
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rock99rock
10/29/08

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Seriously, has there ever been a safe, untainted method to ensure proper voting?

No.
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Gann
10/29/08

@rock99rock: I think we should move to a tug-of-war system. Literally. Every American voter should meet in Ohio every four years and have a game of tug-of-war to determine the election. Try frauding that system.
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OMG! Ponies!
10/29/08

@rock99rock: New York. Mechanical voting booth and a paper ballot overlay.

The gears ensure no "overvoting" - you can only physically select one candidate for President. The names are written in large, bold, sans-serif letters. There are multiple ballot formats to prevent tampering with the machine offsite beforehand. The totals are verified by multiple people after the ballot insert has been removed.

It's a beautiful system that has been in place for over a century.
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