Bush<\/center><\/td>| <\/td> | Gore<\/center><\/td><\/tr>230,000<\/center><\/td>| <\/td> | -16,000<\/center><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/center>or this:Diebold Firmware Rev 2.01.1<\/u><\/b>Bush<\/center><\/td>| <\/td> | Kerry<\/center><\/td><\/tr>230,000<\/center><\/td>| <\/td> | 0<\/center><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/center>depending if their programming has been updated], these local organizations can check them against their<\/i> results.
And no recounts either, please. If there is a great discrepancy, all results are thrown out and each town has to start again. Preferably with trusty paper and pencil.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was discussing in the luncheon room the problem Americans may face soon in their reliance on Diebold voting machines. From the things I have read it would appear these fears are not in vain. However it would … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2655,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions\/2655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} | | | |
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I was discussing in the luncheon room the problem Americans may face soon in their reliance on Diebold voting machines. From the things I have read it would appear these fears are not in vain. However it would seem quite easy to get around this. Counting votes electronic does not seem to me a big deal. Online polls are on every web page, counting votes, without suspicion and without Diebold’s involvement. Here is my solution: for every voting place that uses a Diebold machine, some club or political organization should set up a laptop running a simple Javascript poll. As each person exits, talk them into voting again, on this laptop. Then when Diebold posts their results [which will probably look like this: