Will the Next Election Be Hacked?
POSTED BY: FutureMrsFIllion
UPDATED: Friday, September 6, 2024 03:28
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Q.) will the next elections be hacked
A.) YES
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Originally posted by Righteous9:
for poor people, who don't have the extra 10 or 15 bucks it takes to get an I.D. card, if they don't have one they simply won't vote. That's a chilling effect on our election turn-out and not one that a purported democracy should be advocating.
Saw a piece the other day about some state where they require IDs to vote-- Federal legislation requires the state to provide voter IDs *F*R*E*E*--another one of those pesky unfunded mandates
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There is one thing they can do to improve elections: make it a Federal holiday.
I mean, there are people that I talked to who had to run out on their lunch break in order to vote. LUNCH BREAK for crissake! And there are people who don't even get that. Combine that with the three or eight-hour waits in some places- no WONDER people had to leave before they got a chance to vote!
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Reality sucks. Especially when it contradicts our cherished ideas.
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Originally posted by SignyM:
There is one thing they can do to improve elections: make it a Federal holiday.
Or go the Oregon route: all absentee, all the time. It's worked out quite well for them.
* edited to add: As far as the original thread question... The fewer minorities who vote, the happier Republican Secretaries of State are and they have consistently done everything in their power to limit the number of eligible voters who even get a chance to cast a vote. As bad as hacking the vote, in my mind, is limiting the vote.
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I'm happy to hear that NewoldenBrownCoat, and I hope you are right. It doesn't stay my fears though. Its only a part of the problem. It puts more control over who votes in the hands of election's boards(I assume that's who would handle the voter ids), and from the kind of corruption evidenced at that level in certain districts, that is something I don't like at all.
And all of this for the sake of tackling a problem that doesn't seem to exist. One 'major' case 10 years ago in one district that numbered in the hundreds? Kaneman,the incident was isolated and the effect nil.
I want it to be legitimate voters who vote, just like you do, but all american citizens are legitimate voters, and I think it would be a travesty if we passed legislation that convoluted the voting proccess even moreso to the point where less and less people excercised this right and responsibility because it was made too hard to act on. We're talking millions versus hundreds.
You tell me, which option is more harmful to democracy?
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Quote:How long do your voting stations stay open? Ours stay open easily long enough for people to make it after or before work.
Originally posted by SignyM:
There is one thing they can do to improve elections: make it a Federal holiday.
I mean, there are people that I talked to who had to run out on their lunch break in order to vote. LUNCH BREAK for crissake! And there are people who don't even get that. Combine that with the three or eight-hour waits in some places- no WONDER people had to leave before they got a chance to vote!
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
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Originally posted by citizen:
How long do your voting stations stay open? Ours stay open easily long enough for people to make it after or before work.
It varies from state to state, but basically runs in the neighborhood of 7AM to 7PM.
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More from our Princeton friends and those universal Diebold keys...
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1064
What bothers me is that not only is the key found so common, it is 15 years old or so. Diebold: passing on the savings to the customer. 
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And, strangely, my workday is from 7 AM to 7 PM. I don't know about most other places, but in the USA the working poor often work 2 jobs and have a 2-3 hour bus commute to and from work.
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Reality sucks. Especially when it contradicts our cherished ideas.
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If the Dems win, we'll know the election was tampered with.
If the GOP wins, then we'll know a fair election has taken place.
The Dems bitched and moaned when, in 2000, using THEIR OWN vote counting method, (remember the butterfly ballot ? ) there was a push to automate the election proccess. Well, that's taking place, and the Dems still aren't winning. So they've resorted to, once again, attack the method. The Dems will continue to play this game of 'blame the system, not the voter' for long after they do win. It's part of the false premise they intend to build their mythology on..that being the GOP steals elections, and only Dems play by the rules. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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