18,181: a walk down stolen elections memory lane.....

[Timefortruth]

No investigation was done, no follow up to this obvious theft. If we let them get away with it again there will be no point in campaigns at all.

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DREs are susceptible to bugs, tampering, failure, and do not have the ability to recover data (e.g. they have no recount mechanism) among other flaws. The high complexity of these systems makes them inherently prone to error- Microsoft still has numerous bugs after hundreds of man-years of testing. Further, Moynihan explains that “by definition, the vulnerabilities that hackers exploit will not have been foreseen by programmers, and are therefore unprotected.” In use, DREs have recorded questionable results like the three winning candidates of a Texas county that each received exactly 18,1818 votes, and the Florida precinct that reported negative 16,022 votes for Al Gore in 2000. The Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project of 2001, consisting of social scientists, engineers, and computer security specialists, found that “…between 1988 and 2000 the most reliable of the voting approaches were the oldest technologies: manual ballot counting and levers.”

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http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/press/pressitem.asp?ref=160

It just has to be different this time.