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Author Message   chayotemu Voting Rights Forum Participant Username: chayotemu Post Number: 1 Registered: 07-2005 Best of Black Box? N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Monday, July 4, 2005 - 7:27 pm:    I believe what wwwbill was suggesting was to see if the hardware itself does anything to the card as well. Compare the memory card before using it to the one after it's used. This way if they are different the hardware (machine itself) changed what's on the card OR the memory cards were designed from the beginning to tamper with themselves. Also if you run the same votes through a machine with non-used "factory" state card and get a different output then with the card that was in when the votes were first counted you KNOW that the card that was in there when the votes first went through was tampered with at some point.

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.