Corporate control of voting

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Been talked about for years. The government is corrupt and the voters are fools.
 
I find it hard to swallow that these electronic machines can't have a form-feed printer that just prints one line per vote on a dot matrix printer that the voter can verify on his way out of the booth. Yes, tally electronically for instant results, but really?
 
Here in Australia, people who own and manage poker machines have to guarantee a certain return to the punter in percentage terms...it's legislated as a number, (like 87%)...it can be dialled up or down from pure random normal chance, and is testable by the authorities if a machine is questioned.

So voting machines are completely suspect in my eyes.

Even if you were to get a tickertape out the other end to say that this is what you pressed, there's nothing to say how the distribution within the machine works.
 
Originally Posted By: eljefino
I find it hard to swallow that these electronic machines can't have a form-feed printer that just prints one line per vote on a dot matrix printer that the voter can verify on his way out of the booth. Yes, tally electronically for instant results, but really?
Illinois has this in place. When you finalize your vote, there's a listing on the computer screen and to the lower right on the machine there's a paper roll behind a window, sort of like a cash-register tape, that is supposed to mirror what's on the screen.

However, if that's what really gets electronically tallied...?
 
A good computerized voting machine can give you the results in real time. A great computerized voting machine can give you any result you would like.
 
Around here we bubble in a paper ballot and insert it into the scanner. Not perfect but it leaves a paper record of exactly what you did.
 
Originally Posted By: Shannow
Here in Australia, people who own and manage poker machines have to guarantee a certain return to the punter in percentage terms...it's legislated as a number, (like 87%)...it can be dialled up or down from pure random normal chance, and is testable by the authorities if a machine is questioned.

So voting machines are completely suspect in my eyes.

Even if you were to get a tickertape out the other end to say that this is what you pressed, there's nothing to say how the distribution within the machine works.


I agree, but I don't believe they can't cheat using paper voting ballots... and even if the voting is fair you get different faces in office doing the exact same things (minus a few diversions to keep the voters loyal ie gun control or no gun control, healthcare or not.)
 
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Has there ever been an election where fraud was impossible? I would love to know if there ever was one and how the fraud was prevented.
 
I would say the last presidential election looked super suspicious with just 1 vote per district and just 2 votes per multiple districts. Everyone is so politically correct and doesnt want to deal with riots so they let it go. You would never hear of a rigged election, exactly like you would never hear of lottery fraud. Bad for business and keeps the masses content.
 
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