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AlertLurker Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 04:58 PM
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10. Machines are machines.
They pretty much just do what you tell them to do.

BUT:

Wasn't it LHS that PROGRAMMED the Diebold AccuVote machines?

Here's EXACTLY what I have a problem with:

http://www.democracyfornewhampshire.com/node/view/5330
"The paper ballots cast by 80% of the state's voters have never been examined by anyone to determine the mechanical vote-counting accuracy. The computer counting of those ballots is overseen by a single, private company which is routinely granted extraordinary access to the systems, and interviews with a number of state officials indicate they all seem to have different understandings of what, if any, rules exist to regulate that access...

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