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(MD) 4/08 - Cost Analysis of MD Votin...  
 

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Bev Harris
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Post Number: 7869
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Posted on Sunday, April 6, 2008 - 2:46 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)
Voting machines astonishingly expensive than anyone anticipated. SaveOurVotes study shows that by year end Maryland will have spent more than $97.5 million on the machines it's abandoning, with a staggering $44 million of that going to Diebold just for operation and
maintenance of the machines.

REPORT:
http://www.saveourvotes.org/legislation/packet/08-costs-mdvotingsystem.pdf

(Note from BBV admin): The even greater cost, of course, is to citizen sovereignty. The machines count votes in secret, with a secret chain of custody, removing citizen sovereignty altogether.

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The public must be able to see and authenticate these four essential steps for an election to be public, democratic, and valid: (1) Who can vote (voter list); (2) Who did vote (3) The original count; (4) Chain of custody.