September 15, 2006
Colorado Suit: Ban computer voting
"Voting on computer screens is so vulnerable to massive fraud that Colorado's November election is "headed for a train wreck," says an attorney who is seeking to have the equipment barred at trial next week.An expert would need just 2 minutes to reprogram and distort votes on a Diebold, one of four brands of computerized voting systems attacked in the suit, says attorney Paul Hultin. His firm, Wheeler Trigg Kennedy, has taken on the case pro bono for a group of 13 citizens of various political stripes..."
When all you care about is power and access, a fair and true voting system is the last thing on your mind. So long as it benefits the Republicans, either in the state houses or in Washington, nothing - repeat nothing - will be done to fix fraudulent voting in America.
It's so easy to disrupt an electronic ballot. If you have a Republican administration controlling the Board of Elections and you want to disrupt the vote in a largely Democratic county, why just make sure some necessary piece of equipment doesn't get delivered to the polling places until hours after they open.
Cheap, easy and you don't leave any paper trails by having to hire a hacker.
Posted by fightingdem at September 15, 2006 11:02 AM
