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I just watched a documentary that included how to hack a memory card for electronic voting. It seemed just too easy. Diebold has since changed the 16 security issues it had with memory cards, but that just means there were 16 ways to easily hack into it without any residual record of it ever being hacked. It is password protected but you can get into it through another method so there is no record of actually ever having been there. The information is saved as the original and looks genuine. The Tallahasee elections department had a separate inquiry done because of the pressure to use vendors that were not voted on by the people. They feel pressure to use the software and the vendor of the software makes no bones about who is in charge there. They want the software and vendors to be fully investigated for security issues before they are forced into using the software again. Diebold is still in play however, and the elections department heads are not comforted by this fact after they hired a security company to hack the software....Diebold is claiming that what the elections department did was illegal, and hiring a security company to do it was also illegal. But once it got out there was nothing they could do but correct the software issues before it became litigation. I hold no confidence in the election process and I think we need to go back to paper and use pens. And until this is done I have no confidence whatsoever in the outcome. Blackbox voting has been following the vote tampering since 2001. Congress turned down the investigation, due to the havoc it would create to inspire doubt. So lets keep on keeping on...go ahead. Mark your ballots. A lesson in futility. People fought for the right to vote, and died as well. Let's keep this in mind. We should be really sure about what we are doing before we move forward. I am not a technophobe, it's the fact that I love technology and I know how easy it is to make things look legit that are not, quite easily. Once I heard that memory cards were used I knew it was a joke. Now I got to see that I was right..That joke is not funny.

There's a fancy term for it...voter supression.

I just saw W yesterday glatt. Along with a lot of other people, and I was surprised at the turn out.