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  ITIL Consultant, 12 Jul 2004 @ 5:37am

  
  

  Bad idea

  This in my opinion is just asking to be abused! Anyone see 'Candidate A- 99% of votes...others 1%' ?
  
  
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  Anonymous Coward, 12 Jul 2004 @ 7:24am

  
  

  No Subject Given

  Yeah, if they had real people taking printed ballots, there wouldn't be any fraud in South American elections.
  
  Isn't Mike always harping about how technology isn't in itself bad, it's how people abuse it? (see numerous postings on camera phones) Why is this any different? Voter fraud has been around since voting has been around. Machines aren't going to change it, and it probably makes it harder, if anything, due to the level of knowledge required vs. stuffing extra ballots into a box.

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    Mike (profile), 12 Jul 2004 @ 8:29am

    
    

    Re: No Subject Given

    Don't be ridiculous. I'm not saying the technology itself is bad, but how it's being implemented in this case... And that's badly. Of course, there's a likelihood of fraud the other way, but that doesn't mean it's okay to do a terrible implementation of e-voting machines.

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  Sofa King Stoned, 12 Jul 2004 @ 8:38am

  
  

  No Subject Given

  Candidate A in this case is Ceasar "Castro wannabe" Chavez, who would be happy either with 99% of the vote or an indefinite postponement of the elections (which would give him time to pack the Vzla Supreme Court and appoint new members of the National Electoral Council - which would be in charge of certifying any electronic voting machines).
  OTOH, they have imported advisors from Brazil, which has successfully used electronic voting - without major problems.

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    Sofa King Stoned, 12 Jul 2004 @ 10:53am

    
    

    Re: No Subject Given

    Correction: that's Hugo Frias "Castro wannabe" Chavez. (Never post w/o coffee.)

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  jack thompsonom, 26 Jun 2006 @ 7:58pm

  
  

  post with coffee

  I always post with coffee;)

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  A Venezuelan, 9 Oct 2006 @ 3:32pm

  
  

  Please know about venezuela

  Mike, I really like the website, but sometimes you need to research a bit more. I won't get into the Castro -> Chavez thing because I feel its something that no one will agree on (although I will say I believe that were I live is a democracy and Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias is a democratic president, even if CNN and all those networks say otherwise.. hey I live here). But I would like to point out the following:
  
  -The voting machine's software has been checked many times. It is true that it is not certified, but all political parties have had a look, we even had an incident last year when it seemed that the security could be compromised.
  
  -Second, there were no election planned or executed neither in 2001, or 2002, or 2003 so I cant see how your four year number holds, besides no venezuelan election has been postponed in recent years (since 1998 at the very least). The only thing that got postponed was the opposition's request for a recall referendum because they didn't collected the signatures correctly (you can find more info here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_recall_referendum%2C_2004 )
  
  -Third, the software has been used in at least 2 elections now, the recall referendum whose results were certified as legitimate by an OAE's observation group and the Carter Center and also on the Parlamentarian elections, that were also certified by an EU mission.
  
  -Fourth, the link of evidence doesn't even link to an actual article, but I am sure thats a mistake of some sort. You don't do those kind of things
  
  So I would really like if you could correct this article because I find it misleading. And if we criticize lies, we cannot say them.
  
  Thanks

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