Palm Beach Elections Overturned After Hand-Count Reveals Op-Scans Mistallied Results

[Sancho]

12. You avoid the elephant in the room...

I personally witnessed what could only be called a hacked DRE (this can happen with tabulators too) in Fl in 2004. A machine used in the election was seen to occasionally switch votes that were cast - and always in the same direction - and always for certain races.

The only way this could happen was computer code designed to defeat the election.

The only way to avoid this is a paper trail subject to public counting - because computers are vulnerable. At least there must be a way to verify that DRE's, scanners, tabulators, etc. are secure. Right now that is not possible.

I'm not as thrilled by mail in ballots as others. We've had reports of ballots found in the trash, ballots disallowed by "volunteers" when mailed in, and there is a possibility of a mailed ballot identifying how one votes.