[ale] OT: Voting machines cracked in California

[mmillard1@comcast.net]

Is it possible for a system to be so obviously flawed without some of our politicians knowing it?  Is it possible they know it and don't care or more dangerous to us don't think of the issues as flaws?  We know from Florida and our history that politicians and their supporters are more than willing to cheat.  Whether it is dead voters, hanging chads or slicing tires.

It's a really scarey place for us to allow ourselves to be.

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From: tom <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> 
To: ale at ale.org

> On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Ned Williams wrote: 
> 
> > Pleae see dissappearing ballot boxes in the Dekalb districts during the 2004 
> > races... Mckinney ...yep SOOOOOOO verifiyable. 
> > 
> 
> Well, I think we can verify that there were irregularities. Now, if 
> something wasn't _done_ about it, and from the tone I'll guess that not 
> much was, that is something else. 
> 
> This is sort of the point, I think. It appears that with the evote 
> machines, much irregularity can occur _without_ leaving a trace such as 
> large numbers of acomplices (sp?), missing ballots/ballot boxes, and other 
> forms of tampering. 
> 
> Are traditional voting methods impervious to fraud? No. The charge is that 
> the evote methods seem to be _less_ resistant to fraud, rather than more 
> so as certain politicians wanted to beleive, and that is a step back in 
> honesty. 
> 
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