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Resistance Is Futile Donating Member (693 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-03 10:27 PM
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33. Interesting
"It is not the code that is the problem. Electronic DRE sufferes from one critical difference from optical scan or other paper based systems. Paper is a write-once medium. Memory cards are read-write."

Haven't these guys heard of OTP EPROMs? Hell, haven't these guys even heard of CD-Rs?

There are ways to make electronic audit trails that are intrinsically resistant to tampering. No one in their right mind should trust their vote to a machine designed by people who are either too ignorant to know how this is done or to arrogant to think that it is important.
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