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The evidence against e-voting Meaningful citizen oversight cannot be achieved with In Cuyahoga County, Ohio, during the 2004 recount, a number of average citizens were allowed to oversee the process. Using common sense and ingenuity they collected video and written material as potential evidence that election officials violated Ohio election code during the recount. A subsequent investigation led to a trial that ended in guilty verdicts for those election officials. The result of election 2004 stands to this day, however. The trial in Cuyahoga County was won without the need for experts, audits, stats, and public records requests. Just citizen eye witness testimony, backed up by a videotape of the events, won the day. Only the scenario of hand counted paper ballots at the precinct will yield the kind of oversight needed to assure clean elections. It can never be achieved with machines, handled by election experts using secret software to count our votes. This case also proved that citizens must be allowed the kind of access that would make it possible for them to document any potential evidence during the election process, not after. Election officials were finally tried and convicted in 2004, but we will never know how their actions affected the November 2004 election. Had the citizens been able to collect evidence during the election, rather than during the recount, their immediate oversight might have yielded a different election outcome. This case provides irrefutable evidence that election 2004 was illegally conducted in Ohio. Therefore, we the people now have some real leverage to demand that Congress return the franchise to us NOW with hand counted paper ballots. If Congress refuses to accept this logical and reasoned request, supported by evidence presented here by citizens, then it can only mean that Congress has become part of the problem and not the solution in achieving fair and honest elections. See links below to further documentation and detail on electronic vote fraud and the need for hand-counted paper ballots.
Jonathan Vankin's articles highlight the problems with voting machines and their suppliers in 1989 and in 2000, respectively. The following articles show that these problems shouldn't be taking us by surprise:
"Even the most accomplished forensic computer software auditors cannot always find malicious code that has altered an election and then erased itself so as to be untraceable."
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