Al Gore Should Have Won

1. All of the concerns of the Diebold voting machines have to do with terrible security issues. First of all the machines use a central processing program named Gems. This program can either be easily changed by going into the source documents and adjusting them to have different numbers which therefore makes the program count the votes different. But even beyond this system the memory cards for the electronic readers themselves can be easily construed. It would be super easy for someone to write an encrypted program onto the memory cards which would tip the votes either one way or the other by making side more votes and the other side have the same amount of numbers but negative. This way the votes are counted exactly the same in the numbers of people, but the votes are construed.

2. I really feel like the polls would be safest (even though it would be more time consuming and a lot less efficient) if they were hand counted in comparison to the machines. Additionally, in case the people who are hand counting are bias, there needs to be a government (federal or state) regulated agency that is in charge of making sure the polls are bias. The main women in the movie we watched in class made a good point when she was really evaluating what needs to happen to the system, and that is to not have it be a closed system anymore. It is really important that voting stays as a right that makes you feel safe and secure, yet on the other hand, that can be evaluated by all the people and not in secure systems that only private firms can see. The ways the machines work and how the system is perfected also needs to come in a way that anyone can have access to the information so that nobody is left in secrecy over their votes.