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To: watchinginawe

What's hysterical is that it was the DEMS who pushed for the electronic voting to begin with.
A watchdog group discovered the backdoor into the system back in 2001 in the prototype of the system, and that backdoor was closed.

The Dems finally had no way to fudge factor the system without someone having administrator privileges AND a keyboard hooked up to the system WHILE people were voting.
So they now have a problem with the system they pretty much came up with themselves.
Oh, there's still holes in it, and bugs won't be worked out for awhile yet.
But it is MUCH better than what they've used previously.
(Which is why the two Diebold systems in a certain place showed up with votes already on them, since they couldn't fudge factor it during or after the elections, they stuck the votes on the machines before the elections.)

Note also that it was the Dems who created the "insanely confusing" butterfly ballots in Florida.. which they now blame for 'voting irregularities' in Florida in 2000.


15 posted on 11/05/2004 9:15:28 AM PST by Darksheare (Personality shattered and horribly twisted, the humor flows out through the cracks.)
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To: Darksheare
What's hysterical is that it was the DEMS who pushed for the electronic voting to begin with.

Really? Do you have a source for that claim, by any chance? It would certainly help me...

25 posted on 11/05/2004 10:48:16 AM PST by Hobsonphile
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