[ale] Its over. Maybe

[Jim Popovitch]

On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 21:25 -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:

> on one hand you have a computer that is used to determine how much fuel
> to shoot into a car engine's cylinders and the other you have a massive
> system of computers whose combined output is used to decide who the 
> President of the United States is? 

That's a long stretch.  You are equating the Diebold machines to the
Borg.  Hardly.  Each Diebold machine is independent and just dumps out a
simple set of metrics.  They are NOT networked together and, as I
understand it, based on my experience yesterday, only record your vote
on a memory-card to be read elsewhere.  By concept it is no different
then a paper card reader, other than hanging-chads are not allowed in
binary. ;)

-Jim P.