Comments on: Poll: E-voters not so afraid of election-day hacks

Worried about hackers taking over an electronic election? Survey finds that most people aren't. Yet.

[jontemple]

Missed the point, it is about fixing the election

You totally missed the point, this not about technology, but about getting a biased company to fix the election.

[jontemple]

Contact Warren Hatch

<link>http://hatch.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Offices.Contact</link>

[jontemple]

Try AGAIN

<link>http://hatch.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Offices.Home/</link>

[nealda]

The Power of PR

This is another example of the power of public relations to distort peoples' understanding of issues. Science takes a back seat to PR "experts" who sooth the public with happy-talk and lambaste their detractors as biased "zealots" pushing "negativity."

Microsoft showed the way and the current administration perfected its use.

Public relations firms and "think tanks" are destroying US citizens' ability to reason and understand complex issues such as this -- and they're doing it for their own profit. This is why greed is NOT good (contrary to another distorted belief.)

[Fray9]

Possible reason

One possible reason why the public is not too terribly concerned about e-voting machines is perhaps the least discussed: The public isnt worried about the integrity of e-voting machines because most of them know that either 1. Elections are going to be rigged anyways, or 2. It doesnt really matter who wins since they both will be working for the same special interest groups reading the same prepared policies to the benefit of their employers.

If people are ever going to address the real issue they need to understand that its not the integrity of the voting procedure and systems thats distrusted by the general public its the integrity of the entire election process in general.