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Election Reform

Thinkingabout

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6. Yea, right, that does not work either, the toich screens are under lock and key also, some people

Reply to 99th_Monkey (Reply #4)

Sun Nov 1, 2015, 06:29 PM

Nov 2015

Think they are compromised also. I remember some years back a guy was going to prove the Louisiana machines could be tampered with, after weeks of trying he proved one thing, he did not have the ability to compromise them. It ended his claim and wasted several weeks of his life.

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Anybody found to have deliberately falsified an election should get a long prison term. [View all] Stevepol Nov 2015 OP

Election reform HassleCat Nov 2015 #1

There are lots of ways to stuff paper ballot boxes, what would make the paper boxes tamper proof? Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #2

Try locks and armed guards, who are bonded, etc. 99th_Monkey Nov 2015 #4

Yea, right, that does not work either, the toich screens are under lock and key also, some people Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #6

Well then, vote by mail w/ paper. duh. 99th_Monkey Nov 2015 #7

I am not the one who wants all ballots recorded on paper and claim all voting methods are not Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #9

A thousand guards on the machines will make no difference. Stevepol Nov 2015 #12

Yeah, but it can't be done remotely from a wireless laptop in a parking or from a rented office GoneFishin Nov 2015 #8

You mean touch screens that directly records votes, don't you? eridani Nov 2015 #3

One simple innocuous law would do it : 1 day in jail for each adulterated vote, mandatory sentence. GoneFishin Nov 2015 #5

Excellent idea. Stevepol Nov 2015 #11

From someone who knows more about the subject than I do: madamesilverspurs Nov 2015 #10

The only way to make an all electronic system 'tamper-proof' RichVRichV Nov 2015 #13

I would like to see....Life - Long prison terms for it. yourout Nov 2015 #14