[ale] voting machine redux

[Michael D. Hirsch]

Interesting article on Salon that touches on many of the issues surrounding 
voting machines discussed here last year, and some we missed.  The author 
does talk a lot about the lack of audit trail most of us are aware of with 
computerized voting.  More interesting to me was a Senator that holds a 
major stake in the voting machine company that tabulates the votes in his 
own state.  And he won in a landslide.   Hmmm.

I was amused by this:

    Harris has discovered, for example, that Diebold, the company that
    supplied touch-screen voting machines to Georgia during the 2002
    election, made its system's sensitive software files available on a
    public Internet site.

It is said like that's a bad thing!  I say, "Kudos to Diebold".  If I were 
on the elections commission I would say that is a prerequisite for any 
voting software.

Here's the article:
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/02/20/voting_machines/index.html?x

Michael
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