Voting Machine Company Demands Removal of Internet Articles

I'm not making any accusations, and nor is this web site. But, Houston we really have a problem. For some reason bringing up the possibility of using electronic voter machines as a means for carrying out election fraud is dismissed as 'conspiracy theorizing.' It's no more conspiratorial than accusing people of voting twice, or registering dead people, or illegal immigrants, or whatever. It's just potential *a much more efficient* way of carrying out voter fraud. Once you acknowledge that people are willing to do it, there's no reason to think they wouldn't do it on a massive scale using technology if possible.

FACT: These machines have no paper trail and no way to audit the results meaningfully. The only check one can do at all is to compare the vote tallies with the registration books.

FACT: They use proprietary hardware and code. No way to open up the black box, so to speak.

FACT: There are potentially some scary connections between the voting machine manufacturers and prominent Republican players.

As I said, I'm not making any accusations regarding the previous election. The last fact obviously concerns 'my side.' Nonetheless, everyone - Democrat and Republican - should be concerned about these machines. If not for honesty's sake, then for concern about the potential for bipartisan corruption.

Along those lines:

More than 100,000 votes went missing on Tuesday between the time they were counted by electronic machines and the time they were reported on cable-access television and on the Supervisor of Elections web site.

A glitch in the vote reporting system left a 104,000-vote difference between Tuesday night's totals and those reported late Wednesday.

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Supervisor of Elections Miriam Oliphant said the problem was ''small,'' but admitted she didn't know what prompted it. ''That's what the technical folks, the [Election Systems & Software] people, are trying to figure out,'' she said.