As has been pointed out before, you buy a bag of fries at McDonald’s and you get a paper receipt; any transaction at an ATM is accompanied by a verifiable paper record. Yet our voting rights are taken lightly by state and federal officials that deem it ‘too expensive’ or difficult to ‘reinstall voting systems hardware.’ 

They didn’t ask the question of why these machines were designed this way in the first place by the same companies, like Diebold, that provide equipment to McDonald’s and automated banking systems.

About all we can do is pressure the Dems to bring this up in Congress but, since they won in 2006, there’s no impetus for them to change things.

“Trust, but don’t verify,” seems to be the new national motto where voting is concerned.

The south is still the same, the voting rights of some people are being denied, the sham is just different, the state I am talking about is Fla.  I women should have won the election instead it went to the Republicians, I find it ironic that the voting county was Sarasota, and that country is also Democratic, and only the counties in question would be Democratic, because the fix is in, I mean if this problem happened in Republician counties, than this would be a mistake of the machines, but it is not a mastike of the machines, the machines are rigged.  People died for voting rights, and the voting rights should be very important, but it is not important, because the people voting are not the powerful, they have no one lobbying in congress for them, the bottom line is they are not rich, therefore they are not important, those who have money would always want to control those without.  AARP you would think is for the senior citizens but they are also a sell out.

Margaret from Vancouver, Washington

WE NEED PAPER RECEIPTS/COPIES FOR EVERY VOTE CAST;IT IS AS SIMPLE AS THAT! JUST LIKE THE FACT THAT IF THE COCK-PIT DOORS HAD BEEN LOCKED, THER WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN A 9/11 !!!!!!
TO THE STATE ELECTION BOARDS > REMEMBER,“KISS”[ KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPIDS]

Dear Mr. Williams,

Ever heard of phased deployment?  And how about ruling that no NEW machines can be deployed unless they conform to regulations that ensure an open, honest, verifiable election?

God help us, we’re still perilously close to becoming a banana republic.

In other words, let’s keep the door wide open for rigged elections.

What kind of crap is that? The state election boards would be overwhelmed? Our voting system is being bankrupt, and these idiots are worrying about the election boards being overwhelmed. It didn’t take a long time for the 2000 election to be swindled, did it? So what’s wrong with pressuring the election boards to get in line and ensure truthful elections in two years’ time? 22 months is plenty of time.