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To: JDN who wrote (403190)	5/6/2003 7:19:39 AM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 769670

"audit trail is only as good as the AUDITORS" LOL

To: JDN who wrote (403190)	5/6/2003 9:28:03 AM
From: Machaon	Respond to of 769670

<font color=blue>You wrote: "We threw out perfectly good voting machines (used by many other states including Illinois) and spent a small fortune on the fancy dandy voting machines.<font color=black> This was an overreaction by dummies. Instead of low cost, and reasonably effective ballot voting machines, there will now be high "recurring" costs in order to maintain the dinosaurs of the current. UGH! <font color=blue>Truth is machines dont cheat, PEOPLE cheat.<font color=black> It is the "cheating" people that program the machines. The machines CAN cheat, either by programming errors or by design. Either way, it could be very difficult to audit the results. They MUST do two separate vote counts, and I know that they don't do two counts. The first count would be an accumulation of the votes at each individual voting machine. This should then be compared to the accumulated votes from the machines that contain the votes "transferred" from the individual voting machines. But that is not fool proof. If the votes are tampered with at the voting machine (very easy to do), the accumulated vote audit will show validity, even if individual votes were tampered with in individual machines. In other words, a vote for George Bush could go into a machine in a Democrat precinct as a vote for Al Sharpton. After the day's voting, the machine could "self correct" it's own programming to erase the evidence of the voter fraud, leaving absolutely no audit trail. It is only a matter of time before the new voting machines are used to fraud the voters.