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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (527)11/4/2004 10:24:02 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 362801
 
The system varies by county. Here in Snohomish County, we use the electronic voting but I think most of the State is still using punch cards. We used to have optical scanning. I liked that better because there was a paper trail.



To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (527)11/4/2004 11:03:03 PM
From: ChinuSFO  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 362801
 
More on the DIEBOLD system whose CEO is a staunch Republican and promised to deliver Ohio for Bush sometime back:

How E-Voting Threatens Democracy
By Kim Zetter

02:00 AM Mar. 29, 2004 PT

In January 2003, voting activist Bev Harris was holed up in the basement of her three-story house in Renton, Washington, searching the Internet for an electronic voting machine manual, when she made a startling discovery.

contd at ... wired.com


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