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[Edward Wesolowski <edwes AT idisplay.com>]

Tom:
...disturbing articles on Sen Chuck Hagel ownership position in the 
McCarthy Group Inc/ES&S voting machines manufacturer.

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0131-01.htm
http://www.thehill.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx

Electronic voting machines seem more a "when" than an "if." Question for 
INW'ers, is a secure electronic voting machine possible? ...needs a paper 
trail, capability for recounts, maybe even open source code.
Ed W.


At 05:03 PM 12/1/03 -0500, Tom Tolleson wrote:
> This is good, unless of course ES&S gets their steam built up and gets their
> voting machines into the national game early. In which case we'll have a
> sitch like Chuck Hagel taking Nebraska by a landslide because he owned
> shares in ES&S (http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0131-01.htm OR
> http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0131-01.htm).
>
> I hate to have a "can't do attitude," but, as Gore Vidal said it, once the
> elections go electronic we're fucked. Well, he didn't really say "fucked"
> I'm kind of paraphrasing. But you probably knew that.
>
> I like pancakes.
>
> -Tom