EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Denise Powers
Organization : | private citizen
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
General Comments
Comment : | No voting machine should be connected to ANY network, wireless or ethernet. No voting machine should have a modem. If the machines are so prone to malfunction that they must be connected to a network so that "diagnostics" can be performed, why are we buying them? The results need not (and should not) be transmitted by machine. Results from each precinct may be posted on the internet, phoned in, whatever. NO CENTRAL TABULATORS. This is an area ripe for fraud. A central tabulator on a network? What a target for hackers or foreign agents! No one should be forced to wait for hours to use a machine when a pencil and a paper ballot is all that is necessary. And under no circumstances should we allow this most basic function of a free society to be privatized, with secret software "counting" our votes. If you're a Republican, maybe you're happy to know that our machines are controlled by Republican-owned companies. But will you feel the same way when George Soros, Michael Moore and Hillary Clinton buy them out? After all, it's a "free market".