The Government and Some of its Vendors Can Now Access Your Secrets

[kster]

April 11, 2007 at 09:45:37

by Bev Harris

It's true: Two voting products are designed to be used together. When combined, these two products do away with the secret ballot. And this is already being used.

Because this secretive process is split between two products, the sales pitch on each product truthfully claims that privacy remains in place. What they DON'T MENTION is that when the products are used together, privacy evaporates.

THE 2 PRODUCTS THAT COMBINE TO STRIP AWAY VOTE PRIVACY ARE:

1. Ballot-marked vote tracker systems (VoteHere and, from reports we have
received, Populex)
2. Image-retaining vote counters (Diebold, Hart Intercivic)

Once the bar code containing embedded voter information is on the ballot, the image captured by the vote counter creates a computer file with both votes and voter-tied information.

Persons inside government are in the best position to abuse this feature. In
fact, government security experts already have ties to the ballot-marked
systems.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_bev_harr_070411_the_government_and_s.htm

[kster]

1. kick.nt

[BeFree]

2. Awww...c'mon

Why would anyone in the gummint want to know how you voted?

I swear, you damn Election Reformers need to trust those fine Publican and establishment Dems who know what's best for you, otherwise their plans for America are gonna be trashed. We already lost two fine congresscritters (Ney and Delay) who else do you want to see on the sidelines? Bush, too?

C'mon. Get over it already!

[Einsteinia]

3. and it's Persecution time because--IMPT!

After reading BBV you'll especially appreciate the significance of what "data
miners" can now do.

http://www.physorg.com/news95607638.html

(Data miners, e.g. ChoicePoint, Accenuture) have collected files on what medicines EVERY doctor has prescribed and use the data base to focus on who to target for sales calls. This "data mining" industry needs regulation, they should not be able to circumvent what the government can do, i.e., keep dossiers on citizens at the behest of the gov't)

[Einsteinia]

4. kick-the-kick.n/t