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Diebold's Election Data Off-limits
tommcb writes "The State of Alaska Division of Elections has denied a request by the Alaska Democratic Party for the raw file format used to tabulate voting results by citing that the data is in a proprietary format that is owned by Diebold. The ADP says 'The official vote results from the last general election are riddled with discrepancies and impossible for the public to make sense of'. The article contains some good quotes from Jim March of Black Box Voting: 'Copies of these kinds of files have been sitting on the Internet for over two years, with Diebold's knowledge.'"
Democratic country to dictator: You rigged your elections! We will come and kick your ass.
Dictator: I did not rig the elections, I used the same Diebold machines as you did.
Democratic country: You use illegal technology! We will come and kick your ass.
Why do I even bother?
My wife's sketchblog Blob[p]: Gastrono-me
Bev Harris is an acknowledged kook who used to do the Art Bell circuit but got promoted to legitmacy because her people are so effective at pushing these stories to media like Slashdot. Boom, she's an EFF award winner. The black box voting people are bigtime astro-turfers and they use willing sites like slashdot to make BBV seem more legitimate and draw in more marks. Read up on BBV: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboa rd.php?az=view_all&address=203x340188
Gee, could we get some stories about how communism is bad from the John Birch soceity while were at it?
Never overestimate the end user. -jeramy b. smith
2008 is looking more and more like 1984.
I don't know that there is a Republican around right now who could pull this off.
Unless, of course, the Dems run another milquetoast like Mondale.
(The Dems are too afraid of people like Dean to let them run...and that's why they lose)
my pet machine
Never underestimate the ability of the Democratic party to pull defeat from the jaws of victory.