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Worry more: No paper output, no audit trail of any kind, and the closed source proprietary software will be written by contractors hired by Florida election officials.

The same kind of contractors that "purged" thousands of non-felons from the voting rolls for Ms. Harris. Oh, they fixed the error... then a county elections supervisor found her own name on the corrected felon list. The one they actually used.

Gore won Florida by over 30,000 votes.

As a Florida resident who watched the 2000 election very closely, I agree, Florida is a very forward-looking State. The Y2K election was so close, even after every "safe" form of cheating was used, that it was necessary to declare the Florida vote null and void. Gore won by over 30,000 votes. See http://democrats.com/display.cfm?id=181. Remember that Florida State law requires that the voter's "intent" be the standard for counting. Republican election thieves, with the full and informed assistance of the "free" press, threw out over 30,000 "over votes", where the voter picked Gore twice by marking a space and writing his name.

The cracking challenge is absolute propaganda and bullshit. The real danger is elections rigged and stolen by criminals like Freida Harris and her hirelings, who will have physical access to the insides of those black boxes. The real intent of the challenge, is to increase confidence that no one will be able to crack these boxes and demonstrate that their software counts votes erroneously. On purpose.

The machines approved for use in Florida produce no paper output. All votes cast are electronic fictions subject to no kind of verification, ever, under any circumstance: A crooked election official's wettest dream come true. At least in Florida, the democratic proces is over, dead and buried, as of now. And BTW the software is proprietary closed source, made by contractors hired by the dominant political party.