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Tiberius Donating Member (798 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-05-04 12:12 PM
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26. it's astounding
These companies hide their source code as a "trade secret". You're a programmer, so you know. There are an infinite number of ways that this could be done.

Fragmented code could be spread across the OS that says "change every twentieth Kerry vote to Bush". The total number of votes wouldn't change, and a 50/50 vote would turn into 52.5 to 47.5. Some machines could have this code and others might not. Some states could have this code and others not. It could even be adjusted on the fly so as not to tamper with the totals unless it were needed.

How we educate the masses on this is another question.
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