What I think was the SECOND most important headline of the week

[DFW]

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6643

The impounding of Diebold machines for what will hopefully be an extensive forensic
computer examination will (or should) reveal what their legal teams and complicit
judges have up to now inhibited with claims of "private property," although I found
their arguments that elections results are public domain, but the way they are reported
are not, to be rather flimsy.

A competent forensic examination of these devices should reveal either outright tampering
by the people who programmed them, or tamperability, or at least that flaws in their
programs are so vast as to classify their reported results as completely unreliable.

This has the potential of mandated the cessation of electronic ballot machines for the
foreseeable future, and that, especially in light of the close Senatorial races in
Minnesota and Georgia, should help out American elections in the near future, even if
they can't undo the disasters that have befallen the country due to their use in the
2002 midterms or their flipping of Ohio (and thus the White House) to Bush in 2004.

[Kip Humphrey]

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