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Optical scanners have an error rate of 3.3% Touch screen systems have an error rate of 3.0% (& are NOT recountable) Data Vote systems have an error rate of 3.2% Punch Cards? They have an error rate of 2.5% ... the best of the bunch. Dimpled Chads? Possible ONLY if you try to vote 3 or more cards at a time. Idiots? I'd rather they didn't vote, actually. Palm Beach County's motto? "We put the 'duh' in Floriduh!" / / Voting Myths 2000 / / Vote Fraud 2000 / / |
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| "Computer
scientists have been protesting the switch. They're particularly concerned
that few of the computers provide paper records, making it nearly impossible
to have meaningful recounts, or to prove that vote tampering hasn't occurred."
-- Rachel Konrad, AP
"Software
used by an electronic voting system manufactured by Sequoia Voting Systems
has been left unprotected on a publicly available server, raising concerns
about the possibility of vote tampering in future elections. .... The security
breach means that anyone with a minimal amount of technical knowledge could
see how the code works and potentially exploit it." -- Wired,
10/29/03
"In their report, the Maryland hackers picked the electronic locks on the voting machine cases 'in under 10 seconds' and created fake access cards that gave them the ability to alter results and even end the election." -- Paul Blair, CapMag.com, 2/11/04 |