We Do Not Trust Machines

Paper voting has a long record of fraud. Paper votes create apathy in voters, leading to low poll turnouts, exactly what interest groups want. Electronic voting reduces fraud, increases voter turnout, decreases interest group influence. Most importantly, electronic voting leads the way to removal of middlemen politicians who subvert the intent of the voter!

The Riverside County, CA idea about asking voters to indicate a preference between e-voting and paper on a referendum is a stupid and self-serving idea on the part of three of the five members of the ruling Board of Supervisors. They have spent about $30+ million buying Sequoia machines (remember the Venezuela-Chavez elections - all on Sequoia) and have violated directives by the CA Secretary of State Debra Bowen to limit their use to voters who are "disabled or have special needs".

The Registrar of Voters, Barbara Dunmore, has pushed e-voting beyond anyone's worst nightmare. In the November 2008 Presidential Election, more electronic votes (72,000) were cast in Riverside County than in ALL the other 57 counties in CA combined (excluding Orange County). And of those, Dunmore reports that 9,000 were "provisional" electronic ballots, and that there is no way to validate if the electronic count of votes from those 9,000 ballots was accurately reported by the central tabulator (the computer that counts all the electrons posing as votes).

Then in a special election in March, Dunmore reports that 41% of voters who went to the polls selected e-voting as their preferred choice. She didin't mention that offering e-voting as a choice is not consistent with State certification requirements and she didn't post a warning stating: "WARNING: The State of California has determined that Electronic Votes cannot be fully verified. Paper ballots are available."

Since the County of Riverside won't tell voters the truth about electronic voting (and they are VERY VERY aware of the dangers posed by e-voting as reported over 7 elections by SAVE R VOTE at www.savervote.com) , they are considering raising this meaningless referendum on the ballot to "prove" the voters "prefer" electronic. Why don't they just ask people if they "prefer" going 120 on the freeway, or not wearing helmets on motorcycles? All three represent very dangerous and selfish activities, but e-voting is the most dangerous. It can be manipulated at will, and after all, it's only our Democracy that is at stake!

ELECTRONIC DEVICES ARE VICIOUS -I WANT TO GO VOTE PHYSICALLY AS IT IS MY BASIC HUMAN RIGHT AS A EURO CITIZEN -
I PAY 45 PERCENT OF MY EARNI AS NGDS TAXES SO THEY BETTER ACCOMODATE MY VIEWS AND MY ILK

I VOTED FOR BORIS THE MAYOR IN THE SCHOOL BEHIND MY HOUSE IN LONDON FEW MONTHS AGO IT TOOK 10 MINUTES AND MADE ME HAPPY TOO AS I EXERTED MY RIGHT VISIBLY AND PHYSICALLY