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What the told me is that they have two machines, that are connected together by a modem (used to combine the two machines' votes together into one "voting report"). However, this modem isn't "certified" by the government, so they can't use it so they have to add up votes for each machine together manually which they say is a huge pain in the ass. Thus they say if anyone asks, they tell them to use the paper ballots.

Interesting that they spend so much money, only to tell people not to use it.

I live in Brookfield, WI btw.]]>Oct 27th 2006 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/27/diebold-secretly-fixed-glitches-in-2005-yet-problems-persist/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/27/diebold-secretly-fixed-glitches-in-2005-yet-problems-persist/Oct 27th 2006 10:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/27/diebold-secretly-fixed-glitches-in-2005-yet-problems-persist/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/27/diebold-secretly-fixed-glitches-in-2005-yet-problems-persist/Oct 27th 2006 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/27/diebold-secretly-fixed-glitches-in-2005-yet-problems-persist/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/27/diebold-secretly-fixed-glitches-in-2005-yet-problems-persist/Oct 28th 2006 12:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/27/diebold-secretly-fixed-glitches-in-2005-yet-problems-persist/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/27/diebold-secretly-fixed-glitches-in-2005-yet-problems-persist/
That's a lie. The truth is government officials CAN'T know if they lost votes, because nothing is tracked.

not to mention, these machines are totally insecure, so it's not even possible to tell if these lock ups are due to bugs or something more sinister!

Anyone who cares about democracy in our country would do well to read this article:

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/evoting.ars/1]]>Oct 28th 2006 1:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/27/diebold-secretly-fixed-glitches-in-2005-yet-problems-persist/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/27/diebold-secretly-fixed-glitches-in-2005-yet-problems-persist/Oct 28th 2006 3:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/27/diebold-secretly-fixed-glitches-in-2005-yet-problems-persist/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/27/diebold-secretly-fixed-glitches-in-2005-yet-problems-persist/Oct 28th 2006 6:42PM