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E-voting Patches Skew Election?
Whammy666 writes "Wired magazine has an interesting story of how the much-maligned Diebold E-voting machines were allegedly secretely patched before Georgia state's 2002 gubernatorial election. The patches were never certified by independent testing authorities or cleared with Georgia election officials. The election produced an upset which ended in a major upset that defied all polls. A Diebold contractor tells a worrysome tale of how close to a third of the machines were crashing or locking up and how his tests showed the machines producing errors up to 25%. There are no paper audit trails with these systems so it's nearly impossible to check for fraud or malfunction after an actual election."
It doesn't matter which one of us you vote for...either way your planet is doomed.
DOOOOOMED!
I can see it now: Kevin Mitnick wins the first 100% evoting election by landslide of 7 billion votes.
There's a growing sense that even if The Future comes,
most of us won't be able to afford it.
-- Lemmy
10 million is not really an inconceivable number of golf pencils...
But wouldn't you rather the votes be marked in pen?
DNA just wants to be free...
Ngo Dinh Diem won Saigon with 600k votes out of a total 450k registered voters in the US sponsored Vienamese election of 1954. Of course, we don't do that sort of thing anymore... we cap voterigging at 100% now.
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