Please, Anonymous: hack the crap out of our "secure" vapor votecounting machines

[elehhhhna]

Do this before or during the midterms so we must resort to paper votes, handcounted.


This is the only quickfix I can think of.

Elected OFFICIALS ARE POLITICAL THEATRE oops caps FOR OUR DISTRACTION AND ENTERTAINMENT. We're being shockdoctrined at every level of government. Our votes are being manipulated. If we don't take back our votes we shouldn't waste money on elections at all.

Did you know that there is not one single voting precinct in the US with more than 2,500 voters? That most precincts have about half that? That less than half of qualified voters even bother to vote?

Is there any reason we need mysterious code and etc. to count maybe 1000 votes per site?

Dem leadership's silence on this is deafening.

We are being played.

Anon could help millions of people around the world by ensuring our elections are true. IMO the majority of Americans want to help each other and we are tired of war, privatization, and austerity.

[valerief]

1. Wouldn't that be wonderful? Of course, we'd have to rely on it actually being reported. nt

[99th_Monkey]

4. The RESULTS would get reported

Dem/90%
Rep./9%
undervote/1%

which would NOT just be "reported" as in ho-hum,
it would be a BFD any way you slice it.

[seattle15]

15. And that's the problem here in King County, WA

So many votes get thrown away. I get depressed after each election when I see that my vote and all of my friends that I checked have had their votes thrown away:

http://info.kingcounty.gov/elections/ballottracker.aspx

[MindMover]

2. And using current technology, IE: THE INTERNET to vote

would be a gigantic step towards fair voting ....

[elehhhhna]

5. Netherlands tried this and chucked it

it is simply not possible to secure the vote properly - at least in their opinion.

Great idea, not possible. Thanks, NSA.

[MindMover]

6. With banking encryption services anything is possible ... just that the oligarchy

does not want fair voting ....

[99th_Monkey]

3. That is a novel idea for getting paper hand-counted ballots

which we DO need, in order for elections to really mean anything.

Canada does paper hand-counted ballots, so we can too. As you
suggest, otherwise, we're just perpetuating the money-driven DC
circle-jerk Punch & Judy Show.

[elehhhhna]

7. They called Rove out publicly before the last gen elect.,

IIRC, and his bizzare-o insistence on Romoney's last minute sweep blew up and he was clearly STUNNED (see: on-camera meltdown - google it on Fox Noose). Perhaps this threat from them caused someone to choose not to jack some votes?

[Coyotl]

11. Whoever the "they" was then impersonating Anon.

[Mnemosyne]

8. K&R for a great idea! nt

[Zorra]

9. Vote tampering is a very serious crime when it isn't done in the interests of the 1%. nt

[colsohlibgal]

10. Anonymous Rocks For Truth And Justice

Not only did they block Rove from his little presto change servers in Tennessee last November - like I'm sure he used in 2004 to flip the Kerry/Dubya vote - they just exposed another swept under the rug rape case in Missouri, a rape of under age girls.

For the life of me I can't figure why so many democrats line up to vote for computerized voting. It makes me very suspicious.

We are being played and we need to quit letting ourselves be played.

I watch "Up With Steve Kornacki" most weekend mornings and once again he had a moderate republican on work shopping how to rescue the republican party. Why? You won't see the opposite on Fox, I'll tell you that. It mystifies me. Let them go the way of their "5,000 year old" dinosaurs, then the big D democratic party could be the party on the right of a new Green Party or whatever. That would get the political baseline back from it's decided drift right.

Power To The People!

[Coyotl]

12. This needs a sarcasm tag. Hacking the vote is a major crime.

[Igel]

13. Easier to hack the computers that tally the vote.

The machines are usually autonomous so you need to physically hack them before you can electronically hack them.

Hard to hack what you can't get access to. That's the problem with most of the exposes. Yeah, give me the right equipment and time alone with the equipment, it can be hacked.

Give me the right equipment and time alone with a ballot box, that, too, can be hacked. Vote early, vote often, and vote in pencil.

"Hacking" would have to be rewriting part of the code. That's been claimed. But most examples of flipping involve human error--a person misprocessing the data or touch screens going out of calibration. (When it's the latter--and I've seen it on Houston's eSlate machines--it's a bit surreal. You tap the wrong portions of the screen, but can see what you've selected easily enough.)


As for paper ballots, good luck with that. Last time I voted there were dozens of things to vote for. Do I get dozens of ballots and ballot boxes, making for confusion in voting and putting the dozens of ballots in the right box? Do I shove them all into one box and hope they get properly sorted later? Do I complete one complex form and hope that a battery of counters, having sorted through hundreds of these things, counts each vote correctly?

Even worse, the voting station included people from different precincts. The computer gave me the right slate of candidates and measures for my address (had I moved, that would have been a problem). One precinct with half a dozen different paper ballots? Nuh-uh. Not gonna happen.

Complex needs beg for complex solutions. Want paper ballots, then we have perhaps 6 things per election. President, senator, and representative, plus a couple of other things. Not the long list of positions (federal, state, county, city, district; people, bond measures, charter amendments, advisory votes).

[moriah]

14. At my precinct, we had voting machines with paper audit trails.

I showed each voter I helped how to confirm that their choices had been written to the audit trail tape that showed beside the voter's screen, and asked them to make sure they matched and let us know if there were any problems.

No one said their votes were tallied incorrectly. We compared the counts on the machines to the counts on the tapes, and made sure that tallied with the number of voters in our precinct. Then I helped drive the vote to the county clerk (both the paper audit trails and the disks), and saw our counts written on the county board correctly. Took a picture before I left.

If the central machine is hacked, the board counts wouldn't match up with the disk counts.