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Wonder if … 

Posted Tuesday 8th January 2008 14:30 GMT

Paris Hilton

They'll be using M$ Access?

@Greg 

Posted Tuesday 8th January 2008 16:07 GMT

If they're anything like the US voting machines, then yes, they will be. Unencrypted Access databases, actually.

And the admin password is "1111"

And the disks get left in unsupervised parking lots, in unlocked cars.

And they're all manufactured by huge donors to political parties who are dedicated to world domination.

Cheers!

we should fight it too 

Posted Tuesday 8th January 2008 16:08 GMT

especially when the voting machine in Mahoning County recorded negative 25 million votes for John Kerry. Unless you have a paper trail you cannot have a recount.

Fight EVM's every inch of the way! 

Posted Tuesday 8th January 2008 17:31 GMT

It's your duty as inhabitants of democratic countries to ensure democracy keeps its name clean and is seen to be trustworthy and open if we're trying to 'implement democracy' in countries we visit (hem hem). How could anyone possibly have any faith in any system with no paper/audit trail? Even the hard and software is non-reviewed code, and having seen the quality of the code companies rustle up for sale when they know the code isn't going to be reviewed, I have nothing but expectation of massive fraud being possible-to-inevitable.

On my voting slip, I mark an X. If that X is rubbed out or tampered with then it 1) is highly visible and 2) done in the presence of counters, invigilators, etc and damn hard to get away with.

On an evoting slip, a 0 changes to a 1. A tiny current, too small for me to detect temporarily affects the value at a memory location, and is eventually written to a (spinning rust!) hard drive - so many opportunities for failure, but nobody will ever be aware of them.

Can you prove this machine vote was rigged? No - Can you prove it wasn't?

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