Colorado Election Lawsuit --Rocky Mountain News article [View All]

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Keep your fingers crossed for us in CO, that we can get a favorable ruling from this judge, and reclaim our elections! This group of people have been working so hard on this, and we're _this_ close...

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/elections/article/0,2808,DRMN_24736_5007194,00.html

"Fear of fraud in the November election will be confronted head-on in a Colorado courtroom today when a lawsuit goes to trial on whether computerized voting machines should be banned because they are too susceptible to tampering.
The state will argue that voting on computer screens is safe because a person's ballot also is recorded on a printout, allowing spot checks for fraud and miscounts after the polls close."
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"The controversy in Colorado is part of a growing nationwide clamor over the possibility of election fraud, fueled by continuing anger over problems from the 2000 presidential election, which George W. Bush won by only a few hundred votes in the deciding state, Florida, and after a Supreme Court decision. "

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"In today's lawsuit, a bipartisan group of voters is arguing that Secretary of State Gigi Dennis used an unqualified staffer to certify the machines and that he did little security testing as required by state law.
Princeton University computer experts last week released a study, saying they can reprogram machines made by Diebold to distort votes with just a screwdriver, a tiny flashdrive loaded with software and one minute of time."