Bullshittery

Solitaire passes this on from BradBlog:

"Just push the yellow button and you can vote as many times as you want," Tom Courbat, an Election Integrity advocate from Riverside County, California informed The BRAD BLOG tonight. Not that we're in any mood to report more such stories, but this seems to be a big one. A very big one.

It seems there's a little yellow button on the back of every touch-screen computer made by Sequoia Voting Systems, that allows any voter, or poll worker, or precinct inspector to set the system into "Manual Mode" allowing them to cast as many votes as they want.

…Thanks to the diligence of Watt and Courbat, it is now confirmed that all such systems are completely vulnerable to virtually anyone who wishes to cast as many votes as they please.

Solitaire: “The poll workers are supposedly going to be watching the backs of the machines on election day to make sure nobody reaches around and hits the little yellow button. It's that easy. It can be done in a matter of seconds. These are the machines that will be in use all over California on November 7. Terrific. This little vulnerability has been known and ignored by the California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson for a month. Now, let's all go vote, shall we?”

I mean, I don’t even know what to say about this stuff anymore. We’re certainly not in a position to do anything about it, aside from writing to our Senators and Reps, and signing Rush Holt’s petition, which I know many Shakers have already done. I’ve already written both my Senators and my Rep about it multiple times.

I have no idea why the Democrats have not turned this into a major campaign issue. If they don’t pass legislation requiring paper trails as a first priority after retaking the House, if they do so, then they’re fucking nuts. And fucking useless to boot.