[pilgrim]

Thanks, do you know the origin?

[higgmeister]

No, I don't but my daughter worked in the test and certification center at Kennesaw University in 2002. She told us back then of the program hacks that made the votes go crazy. They had to dispatch technicians to plug in each machine to allow remote testing and certification, then unplug the remote link and lock up the machine so it would not be tampered with after that.

Some time after, I went to our Cobb County Government Services Center for a meeting in one of the conference rooms. I walked out of the meeting to get a coke and saw through the glass door in a room next to the coke machine, twenty or thirty Diebold machines piled up against a wall. The Police Precinct offices were across the hallway and in the same building as the Tag Office and a Fire Station. It's hard to say how secure they were but if cheaters are going to cheat they could have gained access even back then.

People who trust modern technology believe it works by magic.

I have no illusions. For example in my forty year career in telecommunications, I have listened a to a multitude of individual phone calls on monitor speakers just to stay awake on the nightshift.