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Tuesday, October 5, 2004
Yesterday was the last day to register to vote to replace our president, and on a host of other issues. Being a Luddite, I fear the newfangled, all electronic voting machines. Well, what I really fear is election fraud. One company, Diebold Election Systems, has garnered a lion's share of voting machine contracts. Their machines have been shown to be vulnerable to tampering, and the company has repeatedly said they will not make a paper audit trail available. Diebold has obfuscated this and attempted to protect their vote tallying algorithms as proprietary. Since when is straight forward counting a trade secret?
But scariest of all is the bias they have in tilting the election their way. Diebold CEO, Walden O'Dell has said that he is committed to deliver votes to President Bush. A bit of counting algorithm tampering would accomplish that nicely.
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