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<DIV>In a message dated 11/19/2006 9:31:27 PM Central Standard Time,
abrowning@pdq.net writes:</DIV>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>yet six
years after the <BR>infamous botched election of 2000, vote counters in
Florida and <BR>elsewhere still can't seem to get it
right.<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>My feeling: They don't WANT to get it right. It is
not an accident. I am for sticking to paper ballots. There was
enough voter fraud even when we had that. I remember (dating myself)
during the Johnson elections in Texas there were many doubts and
accusations of voter fraud and ballot box pilfering. Of course there have
been accusations since then but that sticks in my mind for some
reason.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Truth be known there is NO safety in computers. Banks
lose millions, people hack credit card companies and get into millions of
accounts, state drivers licenses, even the Pentagon gets hacked. Nasa
is constantly getting hacked. Safety online is a joke. People worry
about getting their ID stolen, just Google yourself sometime. It's
ajoke. We are ALL public information now if you use a computer. This
is just another area where no one tells the truth about the billions lost
nationally that we all pay for. Do I want to give up my computer?
NO. But I damn sure do not want my vote entered into a computer.
Technology is great but no one has invented a program that can't be
hacked. Just ask any fifteen year old kid, they hack the Pentagon all the
time. My Grandson even did it. He and his friends used to bring
their lap tops over here and see who could hack the most companies in two
hours. There just wasn't much they could not get into. Stick to what
can at least be accounted for, I say. When you can design a program that
will change the votes, then destroy itself and not be detected there's just no
safety in it at all, and that is probably a simplistic program compared to what
they can really do.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Duality color=#0000a0 size=4 PTSIZE="14">Mikal
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