[Marxism] More about the US election machines

["Jurriaan Bendien" <andromeda246@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to the efforts of organizations including MoveOn.Org, TrueMajority,
VerifiedVoting.org, and ACT, all votes cast in Ohio in November will now
have a paper trail. But Election Data Services estimates that nearly 30
percent of voters in the presidential election will not vote in systems that
produce paper to be used, if a recount becomes necessary.
David Dill, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and founder
of VerifiedVoting.org, has no evidence of a conspiracy to fix the election.
But, he told me, "We know people would steal elections if they get the
chance, and it wouldn't be hard to steal." The easiest way to commit fraud,
according to Dill, would be by an insider at the company, a programmer who
makes a hidden change to the software. With the current procedures, he said,
there's "not a ghost of a chance" the culprit would be caught.

Nearly 100 million of the 115 million votes cast in November will be
tabulated by computers owned by four private corporations. Besides O'Dell's
Diebold, Election Systems and Software, Sequoia Voting Systems, and Hart
InterCivic will count 5 out of 6 of the votes. Tom Hicks, one of Hart's
principal investors, has close financial ties with Bush.

Complete story at: http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/080604A.shtml





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