>>>>>>>Contrast that with voting machines, which are proprietary and ridiculously vulnerable to near-trivial hacks.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>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.
>>>>>
>>>>>http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0307/S00065.htm
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>>>>http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~seclab/projects/voting/
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>>>We have been voting electronically for over 15 years now and I'm just living in a small village. There have been flaws detected and corrected over time and some districts had to revert to paper voting temporarely. But on the whole, voting is done electronically.
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>>>I wonder, why the "most sophisticated country in the world" still isn't using them on the massive scale.
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>>You're kidding, right?
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>:).... but to be honest, I wonder with all the money used for campaigns, couldn't they get a voting machine that works ?

Can't mix campaign money with the electoral process. That would be illegal. :o) As with any other government contract: the cheapest stuff for the lowest price, but write it up so it looks good on paper.