nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>
><Quote>
> Electronic voting machines made by Premier Election Solutions
> [formerly Diebold] have once again been caught dropping votes during
> the November elections, this time in Ohio's Montgomery County....
>
> "This looks bad," said Bev Harris, director of BlackBoxVoting.org, a
> nonpartisan group that works for fair and accurate elections. "You've
> got an error that erases itself, which is the worst of all worlds
> because it can cover itself up."
>
> In August, Premier admitted that for 10 years its software has
> contained a critical programming error that can drop votes. It was
> unclear if the error is what caused the missing votes in Ohio.
></Quote>
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/13/diebold_loses_votes_again/
>
> Closed source, proprietary voting at its best! Running atop Microsoft
> Windows(tm)!
This should be headline news across the globe, at least, those parts of
the globe which consider themselves to be democtratic, anyway.
Interestingly, if this were gerrymandering or something similar, no
doubt the papers would be all over it...
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