George <george@nospam.invalid> wrote: > > Make Your Vote _Really_ Count > > > > California voters may be in for a touch of Chicago charm, thanks to a > > newly discovered 3feature2 in some voting machines that could allow a > > voter to cast multiple ballots. > > > > Activist group Black Box Voting discovered that by merely pressing a > > yellow button on the back of the AVC Edge electronic voting machine, > > made by Sequoia Voting Systems, a user can vote as many times as he > > wants. The button is intended to be a manual override switch, in case > > poll workers can1t access a machine via smart cards. > > > > Sequoia acknowledge the potential for abuse and said it1ll come up with > > a fixÐafter Tuesday1s elections, where the machine in question will be > > widely used by California counties and more sporadically in a few other > > states. The California secretary of state responded with an advisory > > instructing poll workers to be on the alert for the distinctive > > electronic chirp the button emits when pressed. > > I have absolutely zero trust in electronic voting systems because there > is no paper trail, no peer reviewed software and poorly designed > equipment. Diebold seems to be the biggest problem. Their machines run > Windows and the code is still a work in progress with constant changes. > They even went so far as to use a lock whose key is commonly used on > cheepo office furniture. They will not allow any sort of independent > review of their software to verify program logic. But courts, congress-people, prominent anti-racists, etc., have declared that failure to have Sequioa/Diebold systems in place is racist against non-whites! Don't forget that Diebold is part of the conspiracy to Mexicanize the USA!! So if you are an anti-racist, Diebold, Sequioa, etc., is on your side.