10-31-2006, 11:15 AM
Quote:Concerns have been growing that voting machine mishaps might undermine the results of the upcoming Congressional elections -- among the most bitterly fought in recent memory -- either through glitches in the new technology or through outright fraud.
The latest worry? The ownership of Boca Raton, Fla.-based Smartmatic, which last year acquired Sequoia Voting Systems -- a provider of electronic voting machines that will be used in more than 30 states next month. The owners of Smartmatic are three Venezuelan nationals who have done work for the Venezuelan government, which lately has been at odds -- to put it mildly -- with the Bush Administration...
"The real problem is that there is no way to audit these machines, so we will not know if the result is correct," he claimed. "The wrong result might be obtained through a software bug, through tampering, or because the machines were rigged to begin with. The only certainty is that we will have reason to doubt the results because we will not know if any of these things occurred."...
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