Joan Blades Quotes

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

I think that, you know, looking at all the systems that I've been studying over the last several years, that paper ballots with a precinct optical scan counters and random audits is the best system that we can have.

The basic idea behind a paper trail is that you take one of these electronic systems and you augment it with a printer that prints out people's vote as they vote.

About one quarter of all the voting machines in the United States stupidly do not have any paper trail.

My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change.

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

From casting to counting, our votes must be better protected in all voting systems.

Casino slot machines in Las Vegas are far better audited than are electronic voting machines.

Why do we not have online voting? There's a security system in place already - on our cellphones. We already use biometrics to log into our banking. We use it to log into our health records. Why can't we have online safe and secure voting?

Thank God for paper ballots.

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

Can you imagine on-line voting. Even when your body has to show up, they manage to cheat somehow.

By applying blockchain technology to voting platforms, we can prevent tampering with online voting, which will increase confidence in the voting results of voters and residents in Seoul.

Mail-in voting is a proven and significant threat to election integrity.

Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately.

Organizations worried about the potential for e-voting problems have long-advocated for audit procedures by which votes cast by e-voting machines could be verified through audit trails.

It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.

Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.

We must not repeat the Florida fiasco. The way we vote and count our votes should be consistent with modern technology.

… we have had many, many cases of non-citizens registered to vote prior to our new legislation.

If you go in to vote, and you are no longer confident that the vote that you put in is the way it's going to get recorded because you don't know if the Russians or someone else have gotten into the voting system, that undercuts your trust in the democratic process.

With same-day registration, no requirement for a valid, dated photo ID for voters is an invitation to fraud and corruption of our electoral process.

The security and integrity of our election system remains paramount.