Why does the US rely on the latest technology for all parts of the voting process?
June 17th, 2009
bill w asked:
In Canada, we still use a pencil to mark an X on our paper ballot, and stuff it in a low-tech box.
In Canada, we still use a pencil to mark an X on our paper ballot, and stuff it in a low-tech box.
The technology takes over after the ballots are counted by hand. The results are trasmitted from six time zones nearly instantly, and the results are known nationally by the end of the evening, rather than months later.
You Americans shouldn’t fix something that isn’t broken.
And besides, the potential for fraud in a 100% electronic systems that leaves no paper trail to check is frightening.
Jesi and Dems would learn something if they came back to read this.
The Liberals have been out of power for over a year, and since our democratic system allows us a very close separation vote without a single death (as opposed to 600,000 dead in a civil war), I’d say our system is more fixed than yours.
June 19th, 2009 at 11:58 am
maybe they dont want a paper trail
June 22nd, 2009 at 7:49 am
it’s easier to tamper with the votes, obviously.
someone thought something was broken, like the voters had too much power.
June 24th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
We went to an electronic voting system BECAUSE of fraud with paper ballots.
Each machine has a paper trail that is printed out before the machines are quarantined after the elections.
There is a paper trail, your assumption is incorrect. The CBC isn’t the reliable news source it once was, they are slaves to your liberal government.
June 28th, 2009 at 4:05 am
Yes. We had mechanical voting machines for decades. You disappear behind a curtain and pull the crank to clear the machine when finished moving levers. I’ve read those old monsters are the most precise.
June 30th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Because it makes it easy to manipulate the vote out come like they did in Florida
July 3rd, 2009 at 11:46 am
It’s an attempt to help the poor ignorant voters in Florida to do it right for once… Remember the loose chads?
July 4th, 2009 at 5:50 am
Eveer hear of ballot box stuffing? Americans have made an artform of this for decades, if not centuries. And those old lever machines didn’t allow certain combinations of votes. If you wanted a Democrat governor and a Republican senator, the machine would kick one of those votes out and vote the ‘wrong’ way for you. I’d like to see Internet Voting, but I don’t see any way to secure it so that ONLY qualified americans can use it.