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Thursday, September 21, 2006

A user-friendly demonstration of a rigged Diebold voting machine
Posted by Jill | 8:34 AM
...from Fox News, of all places:





Ed Felton misspoke about one thing: that infecting the voting machine with bogus code (which the Fox News moron calls "a virus") can be done "any time up until Election Day." The fact is that it can be done even ON Election Day, simply by bringing down the machine "for maintenance", opening the side of the machine with a key you accidentally kept from a hotel minibar, and inserting a new card to install the bogus code. So, for example, if an interim tally taken mid-day shows that the candidate the pollworkers were told should win is not winning, just pop in some new code, and voilà! A rigged election.

It's that easy.

Diebold pooh-poohs the demonstration, but you saw it with your own eyes. And the fact that Diebold ATMs work flawlessly day after day gives lie to the notion that a tamper-proof, or even tamper-resistant voting machine is impossible to produce.

As for why Fox News has decided to get on this issue, well, I suspect that has to do with Bush's 37% and Congressional Republicans' 25% approval ratings and the upcoming elections -- Fox is getting ready to frame any Republican losses as theft.

Funny how when the shoe is on the other foot, and Republicans might lose, suddenly assuring an accurate vote count becomes important.

Unlike Republicans, what WE want is an accurate vote count, no matter WHO wins. How can an elected official have the confidence of the voters if his very election may be bogus? Make sure every vote is counted, and let the chips fall where they may.
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