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Investigate the vote!

December 21, 2004 ( politics )

Also, see MoveOn.org's Investigate the Vote petition.

I wrote:

I believe that the unique repetition of statistical differences between exit polls and results in e-voting districts, as detailed in the Harper's Magazine, Jan 2005 edition, is the bail of hay that breaks the camel's back, when you combine it with the political motivations of the private companies providing e-voting machines.

With the state of computer security constantly in question, evoting without physical audit trails and independent scruitiny of the systems and source code is more of a threat to our Democracy than any terrorist -- it now takes one motivated hacker to change election results...

Posted by griffjon at December 21, 2004 02:59 PM

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