Thursday, April 01, 2004

Wired News: How E-Voting Threatens Democracy

Wired News: How E-Voting Threatens Democracy: "'There was a lot of stuff that shouldn't have been there,' Harris said.

The California file was time-stamped 3:31 p.m. on Election Day, indicating that Diebold might have obtained the data during voting. But polling precincts aren't supposed to release votes until after polls close at 8 p.m. So Harris began to wonder if it were possible for the company to extract votes during an election and change them without anyone knowing. "

More reading on this front.

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