by Woody Smith Page 1 of 1 page(s)
OpEdNews
...When I tell you the following you can take as the genuine truth: There is NO POSSIBLE WAY UNDER THE SUN to "fix" voting machines to ensure their accuracy or their immunity from penetration from a party seeking personal gain. They are ALL, regardless of what "generation" they are, past, present or future, utterly unfixable in this context, whether or not they contain paper trails, and whether they're used merely to mark ballots or cast votes or are used to tabulate votes cast by other means (as with optical scanners). Every computer ever built is vulnerable to attack, and there is no possible way to render any computer genuinely invulnerable. ...
Nope, more genius reporting in the San Diego newz wurld:
Decision comes after ban on touch-screen machines.
By Craig Gustafson
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
August 7, 2007
The county is planning an aggressive push to get as many voters as possible to cast absentee ballots instead of heading to their local polling place for the Feb. 5 presidential primary.
We use optical scanners to count the absentee votes in San Diego, Diebold optical scanners.
SD Electronic Voting Systems To Be Extensively Modified
POSTED: 11:45 am PDT August 4, 2007
UPDATED: 12:05 pm PDT August 4, 2007
...A review of the Diebold equipment showed it was vulnerable to malicious attack that could change the vote tallies, among other deficiencies.
Diebold Election Systems Inc. is headquartered in Allen, Texas. One of its product lines is equipment that scans paper ballots, circumventing some of the concerns that have been expressed about touch-screen systems...
The concerns were circumvented by whom, the pathetic excuse that passes for news reporting in this county?
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