Electronic Voting

After watching that documentary on electronic voting having to do with the basic monopoly of diebolds voting machines. It makes one wonder about the Manchurian Candidate, sort of... Simply the codes on these machines may be manipulated to tabulate negative votes for one candidate, or simply adding a vote for another candidate once cast for a different one.

These are not secure because of the simple facts, and how they tested whether or not they could change it via the chip. Once the chip was inserted, the 9 people voting for "is diebold corrupt" said yes, but it printed out 8 for no and 1 for yes. It was able to be corrupted. And with dealing with the top position in the United States, it is a huge debacle.

If I were to run the process of tabulating votes, I would have a much different and politically correct system. All the votes should be run on a simple program adding vote after vote. These machines should be watched and recorded by members of seperate parties to ensure no corruption. This way members from each side can raise an argument whether or not the votes are being tallied right. This may make lines longer, watching people vote, and somewhat remove anonymity. But the only people seeing your vote would be high ranking officials that you would not ever personally deal with. This system may be long and tedious, but it is the price for majority justice.