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George <george@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> > Make Your Vote _Really_ Count
> > 
> > California voters may be in for a touch of Chicago charm, thanks to a 
> > newly discovered 3feature2 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 can1t access a machine via smart cards.
> > 
> > Sequoia acknowledge the potential for abuse and said it1ll come up with 
> > a fix�after Tuesday1s 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.
> 
> I have absolutely zero trust in electronic voting systems because there 
> is no paper trail, no peer reviewed software and poorly designed 
> equipment. Diebold seems to be the biggest problem. Their machines run 
> Windows and the code is still a work in progress with constant changes. 
> They even went so far as to use a lock whose key is commonly used on 
> cheepo office furniture. They will not allow any sort of independent 
> review of their software to verify program logic.

But courts, congress-people, prominent anti-racists, etc., have declared 
that failure to have Sequioa/Diebold systems in place is racist against 
non-whites!

Don't forget that Diebold is part of the conspiracy to Mexicanize 
the USA!!

So if you are an anti-racist, Diebold, Sequioa, etc., is on your side.