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Author Message   admin Board Administrator Username: admin Post Number: 562 Registered: 12-2004 Best of Black Box?  Votes: 2 Posted on Thursday, June 2, 2005 - 3:16 pm:    From Daily Kos - by Pennacchio for Pennsylvania ONE PROGRAMMER - All the idiots who kept screaming about how you'd need a conspiracy of thousands to pull this off need to be forced to re-read that line a few hundred times. One programmer who writes the code. One election official who drops the code (possibly without knowing what it does) into whatever central machine is normally used for programming these cards. One Republican party official to instigate the operation. Total "mind-bogglingly massive conspiracy" size: three people. There's no good reason for the program to make this call to the memory card. None at all. Either Liebold's programmers are totally incompetent... Or this was designed to be easy to crack. Bingo.

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.