Sunday, August 29, 2010

How Fair Is the Voting? — A Serious Question

SEE HERE The Achilles heel of any system that depends on voting is the integrity of the vote itself. We hear all kinds of stories about how in Chicago all the cemeteries vote and then there was the famous "hanging chad" kind of thing that confused elections in the not so distant past. There are often problems with voting machines, damaged ballots, lost ballots, found ballots, absentee ballots — often the military seems to end up disenfranchised by manipulation of the absentee ballots. But here's a whole new dimension of voter fraud. Hacking the voting machines! Keep an eye out for this.

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