I've received this email. Please sign the petition. [FONT=Arial, Verdana, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Verdana, sans-serif] The petition says: "We must act quickly to secure our elections with paper ballots and audits before November."[/FONT][/FONT] ------------------------------------------------ [FONT=Arial, Verdana, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Verdana, sans-serif]Dear MoveOn Member, Imagine if yesterday's New Hampshire primary had been decided by insecure electronic voting machines instead of paper ballots. With polls saying one thing and ballots another—and a thin margin deciding the winner—the results could be forever in doubt. And that could still happen in dozens of key states in November unless we act quickly. More than 180,000 of us have signed already. Can you forward the electronic voting machine petition below to 3 more friends and family today? We'll deliver the signatures to local election officials as well as Congress, so every signature from your neighborhood makes a big difference. Your friends can sign by clicking here: http://pol.moveon.org/paper2008/?id=11876-8608549-jzw54c&t=1 Thanks for all you do. –Noah, Jennifer, Laura, Carrie, and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team Wednesday, January 9th, 2008[/FONT][/FONT]
I don't trust computers as the data can easily be manipulated, but I don't trust people either, so I guess there is no 100% guarantee that elections can be full proof.
I'm definitely against the use of electronic voting machines. As crazy as the whole "hanging chad" thing was in Florida in 2000, at least there was a way to recount the votes. That isn't possible with an electronic voting machine. It's just too easy to cheat with Diebold on your side.
And BTW, Huckabee supporters, I wouldn't trust Diebold too much if I was you either... Huckabee is *NOT* supported by the Republican machine and they do not want him as their nominee.
I find it interesting that a supposed republican (or at least a RP supporter) is signing a petition on the biggest liberal democrat website there is....lol. Thanks for brightening my day!
A good portion of Ron Paul supporters are not Republicans/conservatives. A good portion of them are civil libertarians/people who believe in a non interventionist foreign policy. That describe me pretty well. Folks like us feel that the mainstream Dems are not right on these big issues and are looking for an alternative. To me peace & freedom outweighs everything else. I don't agree with Paul on everything just the big things. Other Paul supporters are with him because his fiscal conservatism. He is far more of a Republican in that sense than any of the other Republicans running. The thing about the Paul's stances on the issues is that they reach a lot of people who feel that both parties are full of ...