Let's all vote! Let's all vote AGAIN! and AGAIN! Whee!

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From: bearclaw
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 03:05

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Make Your Vote _Really_ Count

California voters may be in for a touch of Chicago charm, thanks to a 
newly discovered �feature� in some voting machines that could allow a 
voter to cast multiple ballots.

Activist group Black Box Voting discovered that by merely pressing a 
yellow button on the back of the AVC Edge electronic voting machine, 
made by Sequoia Voting Systems, a user can vote as many times as he 
wants. The button is intended to be a manual override switch, in case 
poll workers can�t access a machine via smart cards.

Sequoia acknowledge the potential for abuse and said it�ll come up with 
a fix�after Tuesday�s elections, where the machine in question will be 
widely used by California counties and more sporadically in a few other 
states. The California secretary of state responded with an advisory 
instructing poll workers to be on the alert for the distinctive 
electronic chirp the button emits when pressed.

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