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Bill Bored Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 02:03 PM
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17. Having investigated some of this "programming"
I can say that it's possible to set it up in various ways.

Some, such as those that exploit straight party controlling races, will show up on the screens, and others that simply reverse the names on the e-ballot would not.

In general, I think this sort of thing is the strongest evidence that something could have been done, and it needs to be publicized more.

And of course there is the screen calibration thing, which would show up, but is probably not such a good one unless it can be "programmed" on lots of machines at once, which I doubt.

Bev Harris et al taking apart an Op Scanner and rebuilding it more or less from scratch and making it switch votes is not really very helpful, IMO. There are probably people in this world who could take apart a refrigerator and make it do pretty much the same thing.

It's more important to show what can be done using the off-the-shelf products and the answer is PLENTY.
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