[ale] OT: Voting machines cracked in California

[Jonathan Rickman]

On 8/3/07, Bob Toxen <transam at verysecurelinux.com> wrote:
>
> Why not?  Isn't that EXACTLY what happened with punched card ballots
> and the old mechanical voting machines before that.  The difference
> is that those systems were VERY HARD to cause massive voting fraud on.
> The punched cards actually were by far the cheapest to operate.



Well now that's a very good point. I hadn't thought of it from the reverse
approach. I'm sure most, if not all, of those machines are sitting in a
warehouse somewhere ready to be thrown back into service. I think I'll make
a few calls and see if that's the case.

--
Jonathan
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