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Author Message   paniq Voting Rights Forum Participant Username: paniq Post Number: 3 Registered: 07-2005 Best of Black Box? N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Friday, July 29, 2005 - 5:12 pm:    well, i'm not sure if that comparison fits. let's save costs. those government loonies like to change voting regulations all the time (true?), and they have a service contract with us (true?), so we have to exchange programs in the machines whenever they please at our own expenses (true?). but we could also store the programs neccessary to run the voting machine on a plugin card so we dont have to actually recall the machines or send someone there, but just modify the cards and send them the new data by courier (true?). sure we could make up some tin foil hat theories about exchanging the programs, but heck, its the government. they wouldnt try to hack our system, would they.

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.