To question Diebold is anti-American? First of all, if you think this is a partisan issue you are a fool. If you think that an opaque voting system is fine as long as your party wins then you are naive and deserve any scams that people pull over on you. The bottom line is any voting system that is closed and reviewable only be a select few, with no clearly verifiable forensic trail is unacceptable. Efficiency is immaterial next to accuracy. At the very least any electronic voting system needs to print a verifiable paper trail, and it should be completely open source with all procedures available for public review.
Secondly, turning patriotism into a partisan issue is a mockery of the values this country was founded upon. "It helps the terrorists because W says so, and he's conservative, therefore he can not be wrong, and anyone questioning his wisdom must be anti-American". Oh, but wait, how conservative is this administration? Let's see, are they fiscally conservative? Hmm, no, biggest deficits in history. Are they for reducing government power? No not that really either. Oh yeah, but they give some fine speeches on "staying the course" and "American values", that's all the proof I need!
It's so ironic that Bush and company are getting unprecedented executive powers, huge tax breaks for their industry, overpriced contracts for their oil buddies (Halliburton), are eroding citizen rights such as due process, all at YOUR expense with no benefit to you, and you run out there to defend them with nebulous slogans against all common sense. Your gullibility nauseates me.
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To question Diebold is anti-American? First of all, if you think this is a partisan issue you are a fool. If you think that an opaque voting system is fine as long as your party wins then you are naive and deserve any scams that people pull over on you. The bottom line is any voting system that is closed and reviewable only be a select few, with no clearly verifiable forensic trail is unacceptable. Efficiency is immaterial next to accuracy. At the very least any electronic voting system needs to print a verifiable paper trail, and it should be completely open source with all procedures available for public review.
Secondly, turning patriotism into a partisan issue is a mockery of the values this country was founded upon. "It helps the terrorists because W says so, and he's conservative, therefore he can not be wrong, and anyone questioning his wisdom must be anti-American". Oh, but wait, how conservative is this administration? Let's see, are they fiscally conservative? Hmm, no, biggest deficits in history. Are they for reducing government power? No not that really either. Oh yeah, but they give some fine speeches on "staying the course" and "American values", that's all the proof I need!
It's so ironic that Bush and company are getting unprecedented executive powers, huge tax breaks for their industry, overpriced contracts for their oil buddies (Halliburton), are eroding citizen rights such as due process, all at YOUR expense with no benefit to you, and you run out there to defend them with nebulous slogans against all common sense. Your gullibility nauseates me.