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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (123625)	1/9/2008 7:12:11 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362923

posted by Brad Friedman the founder of Bradblog on his site last night: <<...Before proceeding, I recommend you read the third section of the post I just ran an hour or so ago, concerning the way the ballots are counted in New Hampshire, largely on Diebold optical-scan voting systems, wholly controlled and programmed by a very very bad company named LHS Associates. Those Diebold op-scan machines are the exact same ones that were hacked in the HBO documentary, Hacking Democracy. See the previous report, as I recommend, which also includes a video of that hack, and footage of the guy who runs LHS Associates. ...While I have no evidence at this time --- let me repeat, no evidence at this time --- of chicanery, what we do know is that chicanery, with this particular voting system, is not particularly difficult. Particularly when one private --- and a less than respectable one at that, as I detailed in the previous post --- runs the entire process. I should also note that some 40% of New Hampshire's precincts are hand-counted, which equals about 25% of the votes. I've just spoken to Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting.org who seems to share my concern, as have other folks who follow this sort of thing. Harris noted that it will be interesting to compare numbers of the hand-counted precincts with those counted on the hackable Diebold op-scan systems. If I was Barack Obama, I'd certainly not have conceded this election this quickly. I'm not quite sure what he was thinking...>> bradblog.com