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[David Minton <dminton AT mindspring.com>]

>From Wired.com on Friday:


http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html

"California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley ended five months of
speculation and announced Friday that he was decertifying all electronic
touch-screen voting machines in the state due to security concerns and lack
of voter confidence.

He also said that he was passing along evidence to the state's attorney
general to bring criminal and civil charges against voting-machine-maker
Diebold Election Systems for fraud."

Also

"Counties will not be able to purchase any new e-voting machines unless the
machines can produce a voter-verified paper trail that voters can use to
authenticate that their vote was recorded accurately. This pushes up a
previous deadline Shelley put forth in December when he mandated that all
new voting machines purchased after June 2005 would have to produce a paper
trail."



Maybe there is still hope for the democratic process in the United States.

David

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