By Rob Kall
originally published in Bucks County Courier Times Daily Newspaper and OpEdNews.com, moveon, the peoplesvoice.org.
The use of computerized voting software has emerged so quickly. With some states and the federal government banning punch card ballots, the explosion of computerized voting will continue at a greater pace than ever.
As an experienced software developer, it amazes me that there do not appear to be any laws that consider the ways voting software can be inappropriately manipulated. It is incredibly easy to cheat the system, for one bad apple or rogue programmer to literally steal an election, or a lot of elections.
The majority of election software programs are privately owned (with major republican shareholders, like Senator Chuck Hagel, who appears to have failed to disclose his ownership of shares in a private holding company owning a substantial share of stock in the company that did all the vote counting for his election, and which counts 60 percent of all votes cast in the US. it
