Commentary: "This is Scary..."

I totally agree with the comments Dan made in this article about the Diebold voting machines. As if the 2000 year election hadn’t been controversial enough with all the vote counts, we now come to find out that the solution to the problem has become an even bigger one. It’s never comforting to hear that within a matter of minutes these machines can be hacked into and potentially change the entire election. Enough citizens are apprehensive about voting because they don’t believe that one vote makes much of a difference to now add fraudulent machines in the picture.

Another one of my concerns is the fact that the chief executive of Diebold Inc. wrote in a letter that he was “committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year”. I see eye to eye with Dan when he stated that “Our way of democracy is being threatened” if anyone can just come in and alter the major means by which we voice our opinions. I don’t know that having paper printouts of the voting results will solve the problem but it’s definitely a proposal worth trying.

http://danspolitical.blogspot.com/2007/10/this-is-scary.html