On Yahooo News: Gaffe Casts Doubts on Electronic Voting

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By RACHEL KONRAD, AP Technology Writer

SAN JOSE, Calif. - The strange case of an election tally that appears to have popped up on the Internet hours before polls closed is casting new doubts about the trustworthiness of electronic voting machines.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/electronic_voting

Nice to see it in the "news" :thumbsup:

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1. Kick

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2. This paragraph resonated:

"If you're at the state party headquarters and you know how the vote is going in a county, you can allocate scarce resources to the county where you're losing by a close margin," said Jim March, a computer system administrator from Milpitas who examined ballot results that ended up on a Diebold site without password protection. "This data is incredibly valuable to a campaign manager."

I remember in the 2002 election there were reports that Republicans in my area were getting phone calls saying that they hadn't yet voted and the phone calls were a reminder to go out and vote. I wondered how they knew that a person hadn't yet voted and I assumed it was because there were Republican poll watchers that had access to the sign in sheets. I assumed it was legal, but this is progressively smelling to high heaven.

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3. Rate the article a 5

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4. Done!

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5. This same story

was on the front page of iwon.com with a CBSnews.com link. The story is spreading!