Does anyone else feel like I do: Throw out all the voting machines & hand-count the ballots like we used to?

Question

These voting machines can be rigged, and the computer counting can be totally off. It would only take 1 or 2 days of running 3-8 hour shifts, around the clock of people who are looking for work through all the temp. agencies---clear them out, and after the polls close, these people come in. If they work in groups of 2 (count/verify), they could have this done quite rapidly + THIS would be a way of catching any of these duplicate voter registrations that's been done thru ACORN, and there wouldn't have to be all this "hanging chad", "dangling whatever" business. PLUS, it would give millions of people nation-wide a couple days of pay (even @ minimum wage) that might make a difference in whether they can make their house payment, feed their kids, put gas in the car, etc. SOME things just shouldn't be trusted to "technology"--"technology" can be rigged. Turn back the hands of time! This one takes People-Power!

Answer 1

Up here in Canada we still mark an X on a paper ballad and it works just fine for us, in fact I voted the day before yesterday in OUR national election for the first time and it was so easy, anyone could do it.. Technology screws up, votes can get lost and miscounted easily. There are some things we shouldn't take the risk in trusting technology for, our democracy is one of them!



And no, it doesn't take "days" to hand count votes, as some people have just stated. They count the votes as they come in, and it's hard if not impossible to rig because they keep a record of the papers people voted on, all together. Definitely more reliable than a computer file.



Oh and P.S. if terrorists decided to attack a power plant on election day then you wouldn't be able to vote. Think about that.

Answer 2

Election Fraud is rigged by people, not devices. For example, Karl Rove created something called 'Caging Lists' -PBS news report in my source below. Caging is a way of nullifying people's registration, so when they go to vote, their name has been taken off the list. What they do is send a first class letter to your house, and it says 'Do Not Forward' & 'Return To Sender'. They sent this to mainly black nieghborhoods, or to poor people (who generally vote Democrat), and to black and hispanic soldiers serving in Iraq. But they would send it to you hoping you don't get the mail, it comes back 'Returned to Sender' and they use it as evidence to challenge your address and reject your registration! It's true, watch the video. So machines or no machines, they'll find a way to rig the election.

Answer 3

Yes, we could aways get Acorn to count the votes.

Answer 4

sure machines can be tampered with but hand counting raises the chances of a fixed election considerably.

Answer 5

Um no, do you want the count to take days?



And I bet you those machines are pretty reliable.