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[David R.Matusiak <dave AT matusiak.org>]

goodness, is the Internet full of kooks or what??  somehow or another,  
they are getting their skewed political views quietly inserted into  
media outlets (thankfully none of the "majors" will report such  
obviously Anti-Bush hogwash) throughout the country.  the only rational  
explanation for this is that there is some enormous, but secretive  
left-wing liberal conspiracy to try and oust Our Patriotic President.   
those selfish people will stop at nothing to continue imposing  
suffering on poor members of our...

/drm
  (links provided thanks to folks much smarter [or is it kookier?] than  
I.)
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http://indybay.org/news/2003/10/1651138.php

Why George W. Bush will almost certainly be the next president of the  
United States -- no matter what the people of the United States might  
want.

The American vote-count is controlled by three major corporate players  
-- Diebold, ES&S, and Sequoia -- with a fourth, Science Applications  
International Corporation, coming on strong. These companies -- all of  
them hardwired into the Bushist Party power grid -- have been given  
billions of dollars by the Bush Regime to complete a sweeping
computerization of voting machines nationwide by the 2004 election.  
These glitch-riddled systems -- many using "touch-screen" technology  
that leaves no paper trail at all -- are almost laughably open to  
manipulation, according to corporate whistleblowers and computer  
scientists at Stanford, Johns Hopkins and other universities.

(national security, anyone?)
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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,60713,00.html

Alameda County uses 4,000 touch-screen voting machines manufactured by  
Diebold Election Systems. But last month, officials in Maryland  
released a report saying that the Diebold machines were "at high risk  
of compromise" due to security flaws in the software. Despite this,  
officials in Alameda County said their policies and procedures for  
using the machines will secure them against voting fraud.

However, information obtained by Wired News at a training session for  
Alameda County poll workers indicates that security lapses in the use  
of the equipment and poor worker training could expose the election to  
serious tampering.

Voting-machine experts say the lapses could allow a poll worker or an  
outsider to change votes in machines without being detected. And  
because other problems inherent in the software won’t be fixed before  
the recall, experts say sophisticated intruders can intercept and  
change vote tallies as officials transmit them electronically.

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Maryland's audit of the Diebold Voting system (the censored version  
that is 1/5 of the original document):

http://www.dbm.maryland.gov/dbm_search/technology/ 
toc_voting_system_report/votingsystemreportfinal.pdf
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peace.