[geeks] I just saw...

[Brian Dunbar]

Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>> Date: 2006/11/07 Tue PM 10:43:02 CST
>> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>> Subject: Re: [geeks] I just saw...
> 
>> Tue, 07 Nov 2006 @ 21:23 -0600, Lionel Peterson said:
>>
>>> The movie left me with the belief thatif Diebold would simply:
>> Honestly... this is not rocket science.
>>
>> It isn't that hard to build a computer that can't be tampered with.
>>
>> Also, does anyone else find it funny that we've been using computers to
>> read hand-written voter cards for decades, and no one seems to worry
>> about tampering with them?
> 
> We (USA) spent $4 Billion on electronic voting machines because a bunch of folks in Florida couldn't figure out a "butterfly" paper ballot and wound up voting for the wrong person back in 2000... [0]
> 

I want to know where the money is going - I've yet to see one.  We're 
still using paper ballots and magic markers up here.

I'm not complaining!

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