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babsbunny

(8,441 posts)
Sat Oct 27, 2012, 09:00 PM Oct 2012

'I Can't Tell You Who I Voted For': Obama Casts Early Vote on 100% Unverifiable E-Vote System

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9667

Sequoia touch-screen systems, found vulnerable to failure and undetectable manipulation, to be used again in 13 states...
By Brad Friedman on 10/26/2012, 2:47pm PT

President Barack Obama may have voted for Mitt Romney yesterday when he cast his Early Vote at the Martin Luther King Community Center in Chicago's 4th Ward. Nobody knows for sure. Even him.

He cast his vote on a 100% unverifiable touch-screen e-voting system made by Sequoia Voting Systems (which is now owned by a Canadian firm named Dominion Voting.) It is scientifically impossible to ever know if his vote was recorded accurately, as per his itent, or not on that type of voting system.
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'I Can't Tell You Who I Voted For': Obama Casts Early Vote on 100% Unverifiable E-Vote System (Original Post) babsbunny Oct 2012 OP
MN uses the scan versions BainsBane Oct 2012 #1
Same with Wisconsin LTR Oct 2012 #2

BainsBane

(53,038 posts)
1. MN uses the scan versions
Sat Oct 27, 2012, 09:32 PM
Oct 2012

That are like the SATs. You fill out a paper ballot, the machine scans it, and they keep the ballot for recounts. I think that is the best method that I've voted on. I've used unverified E-voting in FL, and punch cards in TX and FL (including the infamous butterfly ballot in 2000). Those ones without a paper back up trail are insane.

LTR

(13,227 posts)
2. Same with Wisconsin
Sat Oct 27, 2012, 10:16 PM
Oct 2012

Optical scan that's fed in the machine immediately, with paper trail. Best way to do it, IMO.

I voted on a butterfly ballot years ago. Those things are awful!

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