[Fredslist] ODE TO OUR MISSING VOTING MACHINES

[Raj Goel, CISSP]

I experienced the same in Queens.

I do NOT like these scantron voting machines...simply because I do not 
get ANY confirmation of my vote.

If the supermarket self-checkout machine, the bank ATM's and metrocard 
machines give us receipts, SO SHOULD THE VOTING MACHINES!

These devices are SOOO easy to tamper with, and SOOO easy to 
manipulate votes with, they ought to be declared illegal.

Diebold machines turn US elections into Banana Republic politics.

That said...GO VOTE (for the lesser of 2 evils)!




--Raj

Rajesh Goel, CISSP
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> --- Original message ---
> Subject: [Fredslist] ODE TO OUR MISSING VOTING MACHINES
> From: Susan Zinder <sfzinder at aol.com>
> To: <fredslist at gothamnetworking.com>
> Date: Tuesday, 06/11/2012 11:49 AM
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> Gotham – I voted – have you?????
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> So... This morning at 9:00 am I went and stood on one line to get 
> inside the polling place, another to get to the election district and 
> a third to scan in my ballot -- -  Took a half hour and was more 
> chaotic than I had ever seen it (2 of the 4 ballot scanners for over 
> 10 election districts were broken)
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> I know I'm generally thought of as "liberal"  but when it comes to the 
> subject of voting machines - - I'm not liberal, I'm not conservative, 
> I'm downright reactionary!!!
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> I MISS THE VOTING MACHINES!!!!!!  You went in to the polling place, 
> the line at the election district was shorter - there were 2 machines 
> dedicated to the district -(not 4 scanners for 20 districts) - - 
> Signed in at the election district (noticed that my original signature 
> was legible and 25 years into legal practice my signature has just 
> become illegible - -oiy I'm getting old!)
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> Oh - - look – that dad just took his son into the booth with him.
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> Then.... You walked into the voting booth - and booth it was not a 
> table with metal on the sides to keep you from cheating on the exam, 
> where there's no room to bring your child once their out of the sling 
> or baby bjorn.  Heavy plastic curtains (oiy - they needed to be 
> cleaned, but that only meant that they had seen a lot of voting over 
> the years) You weren't filling in an SAT, PSAT or LSAT form - but you 
> went into a booth with the candidates identified in front of you and 
> next to levers, levers and more levers.
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> You took the big lever and pulled it to the right - - grrrrr - - it 
> said I"m now ready to accept your vote - - and you voted - - - you 
> didn't fill in blank ovals, you didn't press out chads - - you pressed 
> the levers down - - physical, click was the sound - then you looked - 
> did I press the correct levers?   Did I do it right - - wait, let me 
> read that proposal, wait - I know I end up voting down a party line 
> but that guy is on both party lines, for him I'll be bipartisan 
> (unpress one lever, press the other)
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> Then check again - - did I do it right?  Hmmm.
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> Oh, remember when I went into the voting booth with mom?  Fun mother  
> - daughter time.... OK, I'm taking too long here, want to leave time 
> for my neighbors....
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> Time to pull the lever at the bottom from the right to the left.  Such 
> a big lever -  so satisfying!  And the sound - it tells me - YOU HAVE 
> VOTED CITIZEN ZINDER!!!! YEA FOR YOU!!!
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> Now… no sound, no acknowledgement, no receipt (at least when I scan 
> my check in at the atm, they give me a picture of it) - - not really 
> sure I should trust the guy who coded the scanner.
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> But… I still voted, and hope for the best for the country. So…. No 
> more YEAs for me - -  It should only be yea for the country!!!
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> Susan
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> Susan Zinder
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