http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/ Engadget Comments for Voter smashes Diebold machine as e-voting problems crop up nationwide http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/

So, why did this guy get arrested? He should have gotten some type of reward and commendation from the American people. Oh, that's right, there's no one that actually represents the American people, and the people don't even care.

Whoops, how silly of me!]]>Nov 7th 2006 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/Nov 8th 2006 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/Nov 7th 2006 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/
( Ain't gonna make a damn bit of difference in our corrupt pay-for-play system, but rage against it anyway! )]]>Nov 7th 2006 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/Nov 7th 2006 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/Nov 13th 2006 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/
Righteousness 4eva.]]>Nov 7th 2006 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/
Your answer will be "never." You know why?

Mechanical voting machines from the 1960's. No hanging chads. No touch screens that get "misaligned". Unhackable. No memory cards that can get wiped. No "feature" that allows voting twice. No names that run off the side of the screen because the font is too big. No lack of a paper trail. No corporate involvement or closed-source, proprietary, secret software development. No Windows-based OS.

This is the answer. Why don't people actually look at states that don't have voting problems on a regular basis and see what they're doing right?

btw, bonus conspiracy theory: is it coincidence that New York's left-leaning voting trends have remained intact, while the rest of the country's voting trends have moved to the right as closed-source Diebold and Sequoia voting machines have taken over? Just sayin'...
]]>Nov 7th 2006 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/New York's left leaning . . . Windows based OS . . .yuck yuck, computer based voting machines are the future, the populace will benefit if it needs to be educated. All technology introduced to mass society has a learning curve.]]>Nov 14th 2006 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/Nov 7th 2006 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/Nov 7th 2006 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/Nov 7th 2006 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/
Sorry, if your fancy new-fangled eVoting systems aren't as bulletproof as the old ways they have no business being deployed in the first place.

And really, they're not even /trying/.
]]>Nov 7th 2006 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/Nov 7th 2006 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/Problems are problems, pls enlighten us with the steps to actually get to fraud, which seems to be implied in all these types of articles.]]>Nov 7th 2006 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/
Where is there any mention of fraud? Sounds to me like a crappy product being run by people with little or no training. Doesn't mention fraud anywhere..

]]>Nov 8th 2006 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/Nov 7th 2006 6:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/Nov 7th 2006 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/
Were's the guy who said you only hear Democrats complain because Republicans were too smart to have any problems? Looks like Republicans are just too stupid to notice.

Anyway, who cares. The USA belong to the corporations. No vote will change that.]]>Nov 7th 2006 7:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/Nov 7th 2006 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/i think that Young smashing the machine a conspiracy by the paperweight factories to try and kill the hideous electronic machine
the cat was controlling his BRAIN!!!!!]]>Nov 7th 2006 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/
as for the topic...I voted today...on good ol reliable paper.]]>Nov 7th 2006 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/Nov 7th 2006 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/Nov 7th 2006 7:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/Nov 13th 2006 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/Nov 7th 2006 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/Nov 7th 2006 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/Nov 7th 2006 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/
Mistakes that a HUGE ass company with billions of dollars can't seem to fix? Bullshit.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7236791207107726851&q=hacking+democracy

Yay for stolen elections.]]>Nov 7th 2006 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/
believe it ... its totally true and people change votes all the time. and you would never find out because the "memory card" is looked at as the original source.]]>Nov 8th 2006 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/Nov 7th 2006 10:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/
Such innovative features don't come cheap: the players are rumoured to start at $300 each for the 2GB models.

The public has been divided on the new features. Privacy advocates are outraged, but 98% of those responded said "great, an mp3 player that thinks for me!"

Others have commented on the innovative wireless features "phones home! I wish the Zune did this!!"

A Diebold representative couldn't be reached for comment.]]>Nov 7th 2006 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/

QUICK!!! everyone put on your tinfoil hats!!! They're controlling your mind!!!!!!]]>Nov 8th 2006 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/Nov 7th 2006 11:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/
on a side note why doesn't the state demand a refund from diebold for all the crap they deployed?]]>Nov 7th 2006 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/Please watch the show yourself before you rip me for anything. Very interesting...]]>Nov 8th 2006 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/Nov 8th 2006 2:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/Nov 8th 2006 4:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/
It's one of the biggest scandals that no one in the media is really paying attention to, these Oh-So-Masterfully-Flawed electronic voting machines, good thing I'm in Michigan, Paper baby. ;)]]>Nov 8th 2006 5:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/Nov 8th 2006 6:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/Nov 8th 2006 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/
Funny, he thought the Repubs were out to rig the election. Apparently they could even do that right since Dems pretty much cleaned up around here.]]>Nov 8th 2006 6:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/This was an act of feliney, right?]]>Nov 8th 2006 7:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/
And that's exactly what happened last night the Democrats STOLE the election using Diebold voting machines. All you moonbats have finally convinced me. I think we need to invalidate last night's election and start all over. :p]]>Nov 8th 2006 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/
The vendors have it easy, they get big contracts for big money and we aren't forcing them to give us good products.

We have decades of research in human factors and human computer interaction, we know how to make systems that work (major OS manufacturer excluded).

We can make voting work, it has to happen at the design level. We can't blame human errors, we must blame the vendors, the buyers, and ourselves.]]>Nov 8th 2006 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/voter-smashes-diebold-machine-with-cat-paperweight-other-proble/
I have voted since 1976 and have used every ballot system from the mecahnical booth, to punchcards, butterflies, pen & paper, and most recently the electronic voting machines. I have never experienced a problem using any of them, but then again I'm not a friggin' moron.

Consider: Perhaps voting systems should be even more complicated, as a sort of basic IQ test you have to pass before your opinion can be counted. Perhaps the ballot should also include 5 or 10 questions about civics that each voter must answer correctly before they can cast a ballot. Based on many of the comments here and in discussions I've had with lots of folks over the past few years, far too many voters are far too misinformed (and even ignorant) to be permitted to cast a ballot. ]]>Dec 12th 2006 3:04PM