Steve's Report on the Nov. 4, 2008 DuPage County Central Tabulation of the Vote

November 10, 2008

A Rube Goldberg machine is a deliberately overengineered apparatus that performs a very simple task in a very indirect and convoluted fashion.

Observation Notes

These are my notes while observing the Nov. 4, 2008 DuPage County Central Vote Tabulation from 7PM until 1AM.

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Recommendations

My overall recommendation, as I said 2 years ago in the report I wrote concerning my observations of the DuPage County central tabulation of the vote for the 2006 Election , is that we should replace this Rube Goldberg machine with hand counted paper ballots at the polling places by multi-partisan judges from all parties on the ballot, as is done in almost every other democracy in the world. It should be against the law to use these electronic voting machines for any purpose other than to help the physically disabled to generate hand counted paper ballots. We should also outlaw the use of the proprietary Diebold GEMS software which has been proven to have security holes that can be exploited to change the results of the election. It should be a felony to privatize our most precious right, the right to vote.

Steve Alesch – DuPage County Green Party Co-Chair

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