10-22-2008, 08:07 PM
Quote:I just think that there is no known voter fraud when computers are used.I wouldn't be too sure about that. It may be inconceivable for the Netherlands, but it's a real danger in the US. We have multiple candidates to choose from, which makes election fraud a lot more complicated. The amount of tampering needed to make a difference would not go unnoticed. In the US however, the stakes are much higher and a few % more votes for one of the two candidates can turn a state from red to blue, or the other way around. Besides that, using computers will not make things safer, but it will make things more difficult to oversee.
Anyway, it's good to know that most, if not all Americans would not fall for a possible trick with multiple voter registrations, that could hypotheticallly have been orchestrated by organisations like ACORN :)