>>>Contrast that with voting machines, which are proprietary and ridiculously vulnerable to near-trivial hacks.
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>>>Your money is arguably a lot safer in a video slot on an Indian reservation, than your vote is in some voting machines.
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>>You know the sentences which may follow when you say in public that you write your apps in VFP. Now imagine this - Diebold's app is written in Access.
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0307/S00065.htmI've read a similar story early on in 2001, during the recount, but this is far worse.
It would be so much simpler to count manually, with witnesses watching, and each ballot shown onscreen for everyone to see. That would take maybe 4-5 ballots a minute, so with about 300 ballots an hour, with maybe three tables, it would take no more than 2-3 hours to manually count an average voting place. And not only that, the numbers would be public from the lowest level. Anyone would be able to _tally.
