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Originally Posted by Squirrelinabox
Wow, guess that button shouldn't have been pushed huh?
First, opinions can be wrong if they are a declaration of something. If you say you are god, you are either right or wrong, there is no middle ground with that. If you said you liked god, you may think that couldn't be right or wrong, but again, it can be. If you don't like god and say you do, then you are wrong. Some things don't have a clear right or wrong, but there still is one. I can't prove that you are or aren't god, so I can't prove you right or wrong, but you still are one of those.
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Ok I better understand where you are coming from on the opinion situation, my comments were a bit over the top but at least we are somewhat on the same page.
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Anyway, as for electronic voting, yes, there's a chance they can be manipulated. But... oh... wait... the paper voting thing has already proven to be fallable with the whole Florida chad crap. Every voting system CAN be manipulated and I'm definitely not saying they haven't been.
So electronic voting has somehow made it so that the government doesn't thave to fear us because computer can be hacked but ballot boxes and paper counting with the human factor is 100% foolproof? Um... ok.
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No I am definatly not saying that paper counting with a human factor is 100% fool proof, I'm just saying that with paper counting involving humans its a little more troublesome to cheat the system because their will always be people asking questions, and thinking to themselves that something is not right.
At least with the humans counting the votes their is a better chance something can be exposed, with a computer system, someone with enough skill could easily hide a hack inside of the source code to manipulate the votes anyway they see fit and without a ton of people looking at it their would be no one to detect the problem and no one would be the wiser.
An electronic voting system has much more potential to be hacked without anyone knowing, with a human voting system its much more hassle to try and hack the system because you've got to deal with all sorts of people.
Nethier of these systems are 100% foolproof and I don't think any system will ever be 100% foolproof but I prefer to go with the odds on this one.