Voting Security Quotes

We may lessen the danger of buying and selling votes, by making the number of voters too great for any means of purchase.

There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.

Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.

Election security is the first step to having free, fair, and open elections.

We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.

Touch-screen voting machines absolutely cannot be relied upon. Our recommendation was optiscan ballots - where you actually have custody of the actual ballots after the ballots have been passed through the computer. That's the most reliable system to use. And people should not use the electronic voting machines. Even electronic voting machines with paper trails can be manipulated.

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

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

I'm very concerned about the integrity of the vote and the ballot, and that's why we've got to secure our cyberdefenses.

There are gonna be elections coming up among our NATO allies that we have to pay attention to. I anticipate that this kind of thing can happen again here. And so in addition to the report assessing what exactly happened, what we have also done is to make sure that the Department of Homeland Security and our intelligence teams are working with the various folks who run our elections.

The ballot is the only safety.

America's elections are the foundation of our democracy - so protecting them is a priority for the FBI and our partners.

The security and integrity of our election system remains paramount.

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

Mail-in ballots are a huge source of potential voter fraud. For instance, ballots mailed to wrong addresses or large residential buildings might get intercepted.

I don't think with today's technology we can have a voting system that is fully electronic that can be trusted.

I was honored to serve as an elected official for twenty-four years of my life. But right now, I believe our democratic processes have been hacked. They are not serving the best interests of the American public.

I want a for-profit company counting my vote because they know if they get it wrong, or if they get hacked, their value will plummet.

You're more likely to see someone fatally struck by lightning than witness a case of in-person voter fraud.

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.

In my precinct, every person who showed up got to vote. I had to hack into the machines so that they could, but it was not hard to do. The scary thing about it is that I could have just as easily changed votes or allow people to vote multiple times. The machines are not very reliable, and they are easy to tamper with. I’m not even a computer expert. But my job was to ensure that everyone who showed up could vote, and that’s what I did. People all over the county were being denied their right to vote, but not at our precinct.

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?

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

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.

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