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["Tanner Lovelace" <clubjuggler AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:22 AM, S B <merlin180 AT hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tanner,
>
>>>> Would you care to expound on your statement, please?
> Sure - it's referring to the disturbing issues referenced in my earlier post
>
>>>> Sat Jul 19 13:24:26 EDT 2008
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> I finally got around to watching this documentary that was aired on HBO
>>>> in May:
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Democracy
>>>> http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/hackingdemocracy/
>>>> I'd thought there would have been be a big fuss?  Did I miss something?
>
>>>>  I'm not sure I like your insinuation
> Neither do I , however when I made the above post I hoped for some sort of
> rational explanation......

Hi Simon,

My bad, I did not realize you were talking about what you had referenced
before.  It appeared to me, since you were responding to a specific call
to make sure your North Carolina registration was current, that you were
specifically talking about election fraud in North Carolina.  And, as
an election
judge in the state of NC (specifically Durham county for me), one of my
jobs is to make sure as much as I can that such fraud does not take place
on the day of the election.

I have not seen the HBO special and so cannot comment on it.  I can, however,
mention that at least in Durham county such wholesale fraud would be 
difficult.
We use optically scanned ballots which provide a concrete record of the 
voter's
intention.  Also, to guard against hacks on the vote counting machines
themselves
a random hand recount of randomly chosen districts is performed several days
after the election.

So, as you can hopefully see, local election officials work very hard to make
sure elections are done so that everyone's vote counts.  If you're
really paranoid,
though, I'd strongly suggest that you volunteer as an election
official with your
local board of elections.  They're expecting record turnouts for the
election this
November and will need as many people as they can get.  Training for Durham
county will begin in October and election officials do get paid.  If
anyone would
like more information about that, I'd be happy to answer questions but your 
best
bet is to find your local board of elections web page which will give
you all the
information you need.

Cheers,
Tanner Lovelace

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