[Jeff @ Nov 7th 2006 6:18PM]

Let me ask all of you guys something. When was the last time you heard about voting problems in New York?

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'...

[Patrick @ Nov 14th 2006 12:54PM]

Ha ha. Do you actually believe that only IC based machines can be "hacked." A mechanical piece of hardware can be compromised just as easily.
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.