We Need to Fix Our Broken Election System

[SlyPokerDog]

He maybe an actor but he's not wrong. There has been some shady shit going on with the dems this year. All that polling that Denny is in love with ain't going to mean a thing, lol.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tim-robbins/fix-our-election-system_b_9847102.html

 

[Denny Crane]

I agree with the undemocratic theme, but the conspiracy theories are loony.

The government has pretty strict software security standards and reviews. It doesn't seem likely that the manufacturers are rigging the elections. Especially in precincts run by democrats.

Anyhow...

"Hiliar has more votes.

-- barfo"

 

[SlyPokerDog]

but the conspiracy theories are loony.

So you believe someone would hack Hillary's email server but you don't believe someone would hack election results? That's a bit selective don't you think?

 

[PDXFonz]

Contact your doctor if your election lasts longer than 3 hours.

 

[theprunetang]

Contact your doctor if your election lasts longer than 3 hours.

Blue pill or red pill?

 

[Denny Crane]

So you believe someone would hack Hillary's email server but you don't believe someone would hack election results? That's a bit selective don't you think?

To do something like that, you have to have unsupervised physical access to the machine. So if someone is going to hack the results, and have that kind of access, they may as well just vote for whoever a bunch of times using the machine.

Diebold or any other company is not simply given free reign to write whatever software for the machines and keep it hidden from the government before the machines are put out in the field. The government requires and performs rigorous testing, in fact.

http://www.eac.gov/testing_and_certification/

Have some fun with this:

http://www.rense.com/general5/fraud.htm

 

[blue32]

This needed to happen back in the Bush days.... is this a necro thread?

 

[dviss1]

I agree with the undemocratic theme, but the conspiracy theories are loony.

The government has pretty strict software security standards and reviews. It doesn't seem likely that the manufacturers are rigging the elections. Especially in precincts run by democrats.

Anyhow...

"Hiliar has more votes.

-- barfo"

Your climate change conspiracy theory is what's really Looney. You believe in that conspiracy, as well as the conspiracy that our government is ultimately corrupt, but don't think that same corrupt government simply couldn't be rigging our elections?

 

[Denny Crane]

This needed to happen back in the Bush days.... is this a necro thread?

The law to require electronic voting and the instituting the first set of standards was 2002. Bush days.

 

[Denny Crane]

Your climate change conspiracy theory is what's really Looney. You believe in that conspiracy, as well as the conspiracy that our government is ultimately corrupt, but don't think that same corrupt government simply couldn't be rigging our elections?

I don't think climate change is a conspiracy. It's hard to dispute the earth is getting warmer - it's been getting warmer all along, for 10,000 years (since, you know, warming melted the ice from the ice age). The science is detecting this, fine. The conclusions by the scientists is what I dispute.

Our government is corrupt. Politicians get arrested and sent to jail, censured, etc. How about Rahm hiding that video of the black young man getting shot by cops? Is that corrupt? All this coming from you who almost certainly thinks government is bought and paid for by corporations.

Geez.

I find it really hard to believe that in Democratic Party precincts that they'd allow the votes to be rigged for a republican. That's the claim.

As far as the OP, he's a SORE LOSER. Sore losers in the Democratic Party blame the vote counting.

 

[dviss1]

I don't think climate change is a conspiracy. It's hard to dispute the earth is getting warmer - it's been getting warmer all along, for 10,000 years (since, you know, warming melted the ice from the ice age). The science is detecting this, fine. The conclusions by the scientists is what I dispute.

Our government is corrupt. Politicians get arrested and sent to jail, censured, etc. How about Rahm hiding that video of the black young man getting shot by cops? Is that corrupt? All this coming from you who almost certainly thinks government is bought and paid for by corporations.

Geez.

I find it really hard to believe that in Democratic Party precincts that they'd allow the votes to be rigged for a republican. That's the claim.

As far as the OP, he's a SORE LOSER. Sore losers in the Democratic Party blame the vote counting.

Fair enough. I still don't trust voting machines.

 

[Denny Crane]

I don't trust voting machines when they're found in the trunks of cars of Democratic Party operatives.

Soros' company, Smartmatic, makes voting machines. Think those are untrustworthy? I don't.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122644940271419147

The vanishing Coleman vote came during a week in which election officials are obliged to double-check their initial results. Minnesota is required to do these audits, and it isn't unusual for officials to report that they transposed a number here or there. In a normal audit, these mistakes could be expected to cut both ways. Instead, nearly every "fix" has gone for Mr. Franken, in some cases under strange circumstances.

For example, there was Friday night's announcement by Minneapolis's director of elections that she'd forgotten to count 32 absentee ballots in her car. The Coleman campaign scrambled to get a county judge to halt the counting of these absentees, since it was impossible to prove their integrity 72 hours after the polls closed. The judge refused on grounds that she lacked jurisdiction.

(I don't know how you can count those kinds of ballots, they're suspect at best).